Battling Bias: The Struggle for Identity and Community on College Campuses

Battling Bias: The Struggle for Identity and Community on College Campuses [ Ruth Sidel] on leondumoulin.nl *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Politicians.
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As one student reports, professors like to ask a class's sole black student, ""So, what's the black perspective? She includes a conservative student, a student who sees class as more important than race, and a black student who opposes an ethnic studies requirement. But while she sensibly notes the limits of ""identity politics"" and competition among victims, her conclusions -- pitting her heroic student activists against perpetrators of hate incidents -- leave out the more complicated middle ground in the P.

Moreover, her position on speech codes free speech is good, but people should be more sensitive about what they say is wishy-washy, and she shies from some investigations -- for example, probing the differences in atmosphere between elite and nonelite campuses. Though Sidel does step beyond sound-bite reporting, fewer -- and more thorough -- case studies would have better explored the ironies and subtleties of this topic.

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I read anyway because of Sidel's approach of bringing student voices to the conversation. That's why I put the it on my "to read" list n the first place.

It is compelling, and well written. Sadly these issues haven't disappeared, and so the book remains largely relevant. Great condition for a used book!

Shipped to over one million happy customers. But what has been noticeably missing from their discussions are the voices of the students themselves. Battling Bias is one of the first books to offer an analysis of their actions and reactions on their own college campuses. In this work a wide variety of students from both public and private schools across the country share their pain and anger, their concerns and experiences and the impact on their lives of the surge of conflicts so omnipresent on campuses today.

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Sidel explores these issues against a backdrop of our current economic problems and polarities, our increasingly diverse society and changing patterns of immigration. She discusses the key problems for American higher education including who should have access to it , and offers solutions. This unique contribution to the continuing debate on the role of education in a democratic society should be required reading for anyone interested in the future of our schools and of our nation.