Word: activists
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Race and ethnic studies as we know it today owes its birth to activist students. Violent campus protests at San Francisco State led to the first ethnic studies program in 1968, and similar departments sprang up at universities up and down the West Coast soon afterward. Although the RES movement has lagged behind on the East Coast, it has made some substantial gains. Along with African American studies, Cornell offers majors in Asian American and Latino studies; Yale offers a major in ethnicity, race and migration; and UMass Boston features a Hispanic studies department and an Asian American institute...
Arguing the World,a documentary film about Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, Irving Howe and Irving Kristol, four Jewish men from New York who began their lives as radical activist intellectuals, traces their development from their Trotskyist days at New York's City College to the present. In the movie, Kristol says of his youth, "Like most people with some political consciousness in the '30s, I thought the world was coming to an end." So they fought; they yelled on street corners, they rallied, they discussed the fate of their turbulent world in which Stalin was the successor of the Bolshevik...
tions of what it means to be an activist, and the presence of many diverse student groups like UNITE!, E4A, RAZA and Radcliffe Women's Action Coalition (RADWAC) which are often pegged as activist but have different missions, many cite a scattering of time, resources and effectiveness as impediments to collective action...
...this year, Harvard students voted in support of both Beth A. Stewart's '99 anti-activist platform, as well as the return of grapes to our dining halls. Such results on a largely liberal campus confound the observer because they suggest a campus replete with social and political apathy...
Taking place this week at an estimated 110 college campuses around the nation, the teach-in is a nod to the power of grassroots movements. Recalling the efforts of activist that went before, student organizers of the national event met in Chicago (hello, 1968) this fall to orchestrate the nationwide program. What is remarkable, given the amount of well-traveled organizational roads teach-in student coordinators followed, is how refreshingly new much of the material presented this week has been. Although conducted in the vocabulary of a previous generation, today's activists have a brand new agenda...