Rethinking America: The Practice and Politics of Multiculturalism in Higher Education
Twenty-five years ago, inspired by the Civil Rights Movement and further buoyed by the energies of the Anti-War Movement, a generation of new college students across this nation took to their own campuses, invaded and occupied administration offices, startled and no doubt terrified a few presidents, deans and professors. Students of color--then called "Third World" students in solidarity with the imperialized Third World whence so many of their own forebears came as slaves, coolies or immigrants--demanded some fundamental changes in higher education. The faculty and administration then were still …