Description
| Product ID: | 9781479811755 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Black Power |
| Title: | We Are Worth Fighting For |
| Subtitle: | A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 |
| Authors: | Author: Joshua M. Myers |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | History of the Americas, History of the Americas, History, Social discrimination and social justice, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, USA, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants We Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of the university’s Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the sixties and a unique challenge to the politics of the eighties. Upset at the university’s appointment of the Republican strategist Lee Atwater to the Board of Trustees, students forced the issue by shutting down the operations of the university. The protest, inspired in part by the emergence of “conscious†hip hop, helped to build support for the idea of student governance and drew upon a resurgent black nationalist ethos. At the center of this story is a student organization known as Black Nia F.O.R.C.E. Co-founded by Ras Baraka, the group was at the forefront of organizing the student mobilization at Howard during the spring of 1989 and thereafter. We Are Worth Fighting For explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics. This history adds to the literature on Black campus activism, Black Power studies, and the emerging histories of African American life in the 1980s. The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants |
| Imprint Name: | New York University Press |
| Publisher Name: | New York University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-01-21 |