The splintering of the American mind : identity politics, inequality, and community on today's colle...
The splintering of the American mind : identity politics, inequality, and community on today's colle...
The splintering of the American mind : identity politics, inequality, and community on today's college campuses / William Egginton.
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New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
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G 2018/5423
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English
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Physical content
263 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
I: IDENTITY. Undoing history ; A first volley in the culture wars ; Making the personal political ; The best that has been thought and said ; The rise of theory ; The liberal imagination ; A contagion of disapproval ; An authoritarian underbelly ; Boutique multiculturalism ; A presupposition of inco...
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Publisher
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
"A timely, provocative, necessary look at how identity politics has come to dominate college campuses and higher education in America at the expense of a more essential commitment to equality. Thirty years after the culture wars, identity politics is now the norm on college campuses--and it hasn't been an unalloyed good for our education system or...
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The splintering of the American mind : identity politics, inequality, and community on today's college campuses / William Egginton.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [226]-254) and index.
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©2018
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G 2018/5423
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74VKV8MJbNDA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV8MJbNDA
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ISBN
9781635571332 hardcover
1635571332 hardcover
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305.800973
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991024187598502626
