Higher education for all : racial inequality, Cold War liberalism, and the California master plan / Andrew Stone Higgins.

Author/creator Higgins, Andrew Stone author.
Format Book
PublicationChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
Description283 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction -- The ghost of Sputnik -- Striking the knowledge factory -- The new right takes aim -- Black skin, white campus -- A master plan for Chicanos -- Their struggle is our struggle -- Conclusion.
Abstract "In the late 1950s, California embarked on an ambitious attempt to provide free public higher education to all high school graduates. This massive expansion of higher education in what would soon be the nation's most populous state coincided with the arrival of the counterculture on campus, a surge of organizing around ethnic studies and affirmative action programs, and the rise of the New Right, with Ronald Reagan as governor. As Andrew Stone Higgins details, this collision was no coincidence-the tension between the democratic promise of the California Master Plan for Education and the structural injustices it inadvertently reinforced ended up catalyzing the tumultuous politics of the 1960s, including both progressive campus movements and conservative backlash"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9781469672939
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LCCN 2022029654
ISBN9781469672908 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN1469672901
ISBN9781469672915 (paperback ; alk. paper)
ISBN146967291X
ISBN(ebook)
ISBNebook

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Joyner General Stacks LC212.422 .C2 H54 2023 ✔ Available Place Hold