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The Rape of the powerless: a symposium at the Atlanta University Center

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Authors: Ralph Nader [and others] Editor: William Osborne.

The evolving American multiversity increasingly pursues a dichotomous existence. Its context evidences enslavement as its content encourages liberation. Educational structures maintain fidelity toward established corporate form and ritual, but the transient constituencies within evangelize a revolutionary word. There would be pleasantness about this paradox, a more apparent creativity in the instability, if the relating of context and content were dialogical. Instead, the mutual suppositions prerequisite to conversation are obscured or absent, and the contemporary academic event suffers a malaise of unresolved and unreflective confrontation.

The American multiversity is now its own worst problem. Although idealistically interpreted as a monolith battling external forces of ignorance, its war is really within. The institution's context can tolerate some content of dissent but not the volatile dissolution of its own familiar structure. The institution's content is postured against external oppressions but also assumes the priority of overcoming oppressive internal forms and contexts. This house divided may stand, and, in a Marxist sense, the dialectical tension may be the harbinger of progressive new stages in the institution's history but, in the meanwhile, the mind-sets involved are increasingly rigid and the educational moment is acrimonious. ''House nigger" and "field nigger" roles are identified and obediently played while neither total enslavement nor complete liberation is secured.

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362.83 NAD t

Penerbit

New York : Gordon and Breach., 1971

Deskripsi Fisik

v, 207 hlm.; 24 cm.

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English

ISBN/ISSN

0677147201

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362.83

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text

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Cet. 2

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Congresses
United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980
Social problems

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