Paper Title
(Re)Centering Activism: Agency, Action, and Change at Community Colleges
Panel
Intersecting Places: Navigating Spaces of Body Politics on Campus and Community
Location
Room 214, West Center
Start Date
2-4-2016 9:00 AM
End Date
2-4-2016 10:15 AM
Abstract
The 1960s uprisings at Berkeley, Kent State, and Columbia have come to serve as the normative benchmark for “student activism” in the U.S. Those stories and movements were pivotal social events and shaped our collective cultural narrative about activism. However, missing from that narrative are the events, students, and issues at community colleges. The distortion of activism undervalues and erases the contributions of community college students and faculty. Theorizing class, this paper explores the institutional dislocation of community college activism, and then re-centers the individual stories of social justice performed through WGS courses and campus movement-building of otherwise marginalized communities.
(Re)Centering Activism: Agency, Action, and Change at Community Colleges
Room 214, West Center
The 1960s uprisings at Berkeley, Kent State, and Columbia have come to serve as the normative benchmark for “student activism” in the U.S. Those stories and movements were pivotal social events and shaped our collective cultural narrative about activism. However, missing from that narrative are the events, students, and issues at community colleges. The distortion of activism undervalues and erases the contributions of community college students and faculty. Theorizing class, this paper explores the institutional dislocation of community college activism, and then re-centers the individual stories of social justice performed through WGS courses and campus movement-building of otherwise marginalized communities.
