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Author Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph, 1968-

Title Starving for justice : hunger strikes, spectacular speech, and the struggle for dignity / Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 305 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Starving for Justice : Hunger Strikes, Spectacular Speech, and the Struggle for Dignity; 2. "Speak About Destruction" : Coloniality, Humiliation, and Self-Sacrifice; 3. UCLA : "Hungry for Justice"; 4. UC Santa Barbara : "We Offer Our Lives as a Moral Protest"; 5. Stanford : "Things Aren't Right Here"; 6. "Two, Three, or Many Hunger Strikes" : Screaming and Dreaming for 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-293) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Stanford University -- Student strike, 1994
University of California, Santa Barbara -- Student strike, 1994
University of California, Los Angeles -- Student strike, 1993
SUBJECT Stanford University fast
University of California, Los Angeles fast
University of California, Santa Barbara fast
Subject Hispanic American college students -- California
Student protesters -- California
Hunger strikes -- California
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Hispanic American college students
Hunger strikes
Student protesters
California
Form Electronic book
ISBN 081653621X
9780816536214
9780816532582
0816532583