Teachers College Press Campus Uprisings: How Student Activists and Collegiate Leaders Resist Racism and Create Hope (Multicultural Education Series)

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that “White supremacist groups are targeting college campuses like never before,” while the appearance of nooses, swastikas, and racial epithets are increasing across the United States. This timely volume presents a wide-range of perspectives to offer readers practical steps and policy options for creating campus structures that are fair and inclusive to students of all races and social statuses. It features chapters from a university president, department chair, a campus chaplain, cultural center directors, faculty, and students―including voices from the University of Missouri and Howard University during their recent series of protests. Campus Uprisings demonstrates the power and value of principled non-violent activism to provoke change and provides thoughtful strategies to help universities manage conflict and racial tension.Book Features:Recommendations drawn from both scholarly analyses focused on practice and reflections from actual practitioners.“Voices from the Field” presents real-time perspectives of activists who are currently working toward societal change. An intergenerational relevance with chapters on the Civil Rights era protests and current movements, such as Me Too and Black Lives Matter. Review "Amidst renewed calls for the removal of confederate monuments, the renaming of buildings, and structural reform of both university institutions (e.g., admissions) and societal institutions (e.g., the police), Campus Uprisings offers a history of student activism, a primer on recent campus movements, and clear and actionable recommendations for students, faculty, community members, and student affairs professionals. The contributors to this volume remind us of the success and failures of the past and offer desperately needed opportunities for those working in the fields of higher education and student affairs to learn and grow."--Education Review" Campus Uprisings is organized in chapters that tell the stories of protests at various college campuses and the factors that influenced these events. The collection informs those who have a utopian view of campus life that too many Black students experience 'the challenges of fitting in, mistreatment, (and) regret' (p. 160)."-- Choice"Vital scholarly inquiry on the potential of student uprisings as an aperture to broader social change."--Teachers College Record About the Author Ty-Ron M. O. Douglas is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri. Kmt G. Shockley is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Howard University School of Education. Ivory A. Toldson is a professor of counseling psychology at Howard University, president of Quality Education for Minorities, and the editor-in-chief of TheJournal of Negro Education.