[lbo-talk] The Neoliberalization Of Higher Education: What’s Race Got To Do With It?

[Alan Rudy]

It has weirded me out since I got here, my experience elsewhere was as you
describe.
Perhaps a difference between somewhat more cosmopolitan places like Portland
and noticeably-less-so mid-Michigan...
It appears that Reed's not going to give me a call to see if I might be
worthy of an appt there... its a bummer, 2010 looks to suck in MI (for us
and many others).
A

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:


> Alan Rudy wrote:
>
>> Basically, my students can't not read/hear about Marx except in
>> anti-American, economic determinist, violent revolutionary, and simplistic
>> two-class-ist terms... pretty much no matter how hard and often I try.
>>
>
> That's interesting.  I assign the Communist Manifesto in my intro Soc
> classes, and the community college students don't usually display the kind
> of knee-jerk reaction you're describing.   They may not agree with the
> perspective, but they can apply basic Marxist ideas to make sense of social
> structure and social change.
>
> Miles
>
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Alan P. Rudy
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Central Michigan University
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Mt Pleasant, MI 48858
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