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

By: Publisher: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2017]Description: xvii, 305 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780816532582 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780816537938 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.6/1 23
LOC classification:
  • HN79.C23 H8425 2017
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.

"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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-293) and index.

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.

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