Student Activism Bibliography
Note the journal articles are more useful for research, whereas the books are more fun.
Journal Articles
- Altbach, Philip G. and Robert Cohen. “American Student
Activism: The Post Sixties Transformation.” The Journal ofHigher
Education, 61 (1), 1990, 32-49.
- Block, Jeanne H. Norma Haan and M. Brewster Smith. “Socialization Correlates of Student Activism.” Journal of Social Issues 25 (4): 143-177, 1969.
- Duncan, Lauren E. And Abigail J. Steward. “Still
Bringing the Vietnam War Home: Sources of Contemporary Student Activism.”
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,21 (9), 1995, 914-924.
- Hirsch, Eric L. “Sacrifice for the Cause: Group
Processes, Recruitment, and Commitment in a Student Social Movement,” American
Sociological Review, 55 (2), 1990, 243-254. (cool!)
- Lewis, Steven H. and Robert E. Kraut. “Correlates of Student Political Activism and Ideology.” Journal of Social Issues 28 (4): 131-149, 1972.
- North America Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Report. Special Report on the Latin American university. Jan/Feb. 2000. (the entire issue)
- Paulsen, Ronnelle. “Status and Action: How Stratification Affects the Protest Participation of Young Adults” Sociological Perspectives, 37 (4): 635-649, 1994.
- Pinard, Maurice and Jerome Kirk and Donald Von Eschen. “Processes of Recruitment in the Sit-In Movement.” Public Opinion Quarterly 33 (3): 355-369, 1968.
- Park, Byeong-Chul. "An Aspect of Political Socialization of Student Movement Participants in
Korea." Youth & Society, 25 (2): 171-201, 1993.
- Rhoads, Robert A. Interpreting Identity Politics: The Education Challenge of Contemporary Student Activism, Journal of College Student Development, 38 (5), 508-519, 1997.
- Thomas, L. E. “Family correlates of student political activism.” Developmental Psychology 4 (2): 206-214, 1971.
- Wood, James L. and Wing-Cheung Ng. Socialization and Student Activism: Examination of a Relationship. Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (3): 21-43, 1980.
Books on Post-Sixties activism
- Christiansen, John and Sharon Barnatt. “Deaf President Now: The 1988 Revolution at Gallaudet University.” Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1995.
- Feuer, Lewis. “The Conflict of Generations.” New York: Basic Books, 1969. (a rightwing critique of student activism)
- Hudson et al, ed. “When Campus Resists.” Occupation Press, 1997. (written by Guelph student activists - available from the Center
for Campus Organizing)
- Loeb, Paul. Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy
and Action on the American Campus. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1994.
- Rhoads, Robert A. Freedom's Web: Student Activism
in an Age of Cultural Diversity. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
- Solely, Lawrence. “Leasing the Ivory Tower: the Corporate Takeover of Academia.” South End Press, 1995.
- USAS. Students Against Sweatshops: The Making of a Movement. By Verso. (upcoming in June 2000)
- Vellela, Tony. New Voices: Student Activism in
the 80s and 90s. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1988.
- White, Geoffrey D, ed. “Campus Inc.” Prometheus Books, 2000.
Books on the Sixties
- FBI file on the Students for a Democratic Society and the Weatherman Underground Organization, Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 1991. (not a book -- 8 reels of microfilm)
- Gitlin, Todd. Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage. Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1987.
- Libarle, Marc & Tom Seligson. Eds. The
High School Revolutionaries. New York, Random House, 1970.
- Miller, Jim. Democracy is in the streets : from Port Huron to the siege of Chicago. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
- Sale, Kirkpatrick. SDS: Ten Years Towards a Revolution. New York, Random House,
1973. (MUST READ!!!)
Books on the 1930s
- Cohen, Robert. "When the old left was young." New York : Oxford University Press, 1993. 432p.
- Brax, Ralph S. "The first student movement." Port Washington, NY : Kennikat Press, 1980. 121p.
Miscellaneous
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