Tony Platt

The Scandal of Cal

Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at Uc Berkeley

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A history of conquest, racism, warfare, and historical amnesia at the University of California, Berkeley"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Heyday Books
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9781597146210
• ISBN-10: 1597146218
• Artikelnr.: 67052266

Autorenporträt

Tony Platt is the author of more than ten books on race, inequality, and social justice in American history, among them Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States, The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency, and Grave Matters: The Controversy over Excavating California's Buried Indigenous Past. Platt, now a professor emeritus, taught at the University of Chicago, UC Berkeley, and CSU Sacramento, where he received awards for teaching and scholarship. Platt has written for the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, History News Network, Monthly Review, and the Guardian, and his commentaries have aired on NPR. His publications have been translated into four languages. Platt lives in Berkeley and Big Lagoon, California.