New Voices: Student Political Activism in the '80s and '90s - Hardcover

Vellela, Tony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089608342X ISBN 13: 9780896083424

Publisher: South End Press, 1999

Synopsis

Examines the recent resurgance in student activism, looks at current issues, and shares interviews with student activists

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From Publishers Weekly:

The author of Food Co-ops for Small Groups chronicles current campus protest activity, interviews student leaders and profiles organizations to prove his finally undeniable point that student activism in the '80s is a vital and influential national movement. Apartheid, Central America, sexism and racism are just a few of the hotbeds of contention on campuses today, and Vellela sets the background of student activism on each issue, from the Depression to the late '70s, and examines the tactics of today's activists, their aims, problems and achievements. He also revisits many news-making events, like the CIA protesters' trial involving Amy Carter and Abbie Hoffman, and the racial attacks at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst after the '86 World Series. Often the book slips into propagandistic tones, and New Voices is more a facet of the activism it describes than an impartial record of it. It is also an impressive study and a piece of history in the making. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

"It never went away," Vellela says, referring to the student activism that so transformed America (and the world) in the 1960s. This interesting and valuable piece of reportage confirms that student activism is alive and well, but has changed in terms of issues, strategies, perspectives, linkages, and sensibilities. Vellela's reportage is a combination of text and interviews with front-line activistssome interesting, some not. Touching on issues from divestment to gay rights, from campus media to racism, he provides a valuable sampling of events and organizations. Required reading for observers of the "new" generation. Henry Steck, SUNY Coll. at Cortland
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: South End Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 089608342X
• ISBN 13: 9780896083424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 279