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Author:

Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph, 1968- author.

Title:

Starving for justice : hunger strikes, spectacular speech, and the struggle for dignity / Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval.

Publisher:

The University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xvii, 305 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

University of California, Los Angeles--Student strike, 1993.
University of California, Santa Barbara--Student strike, 1994.
Stanford University--Student strike, 1994.
Hunger strikes--California.
Student protesters--California.
Hispanic American college students--California.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Starving for justice: hunger strikes, spectacular speech, and the struggle for dignity -- Chapter 2. "Speak about destruction": coloniality, humiliation, and self-sacrifice -- Chapter 3. UCLA: "hungry for justice" -- Chapter 4. UC Santa Barbara: "we offer our lives a moral protest" -- Chapter 5. Stanford: "things aren't right here" -- Chapter 6. "Two, three, or many hunger strikes": screaming and dreaming of a new world.

Summary:

"Focusing on three hunger strikes occurring on university campuses in California in the 1990s, Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval examines people's willingness to make the extreme sacrifice and give their lives for justice"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0816532583
9780816532582

OCLC:

(OCoLC)961159869

LCCN:

2016039010

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)