Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education

by John Palfrey

Book Overview

How the essential democratic values of diversity and free expression can coexist on campus.

Safe spaces, trigger warnings, microaggressions, the disinvitation of speakers, demands to rename campus landmarks--debate over these issues began in lecture halls and on college quads but ended up on op-ed pages in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, on cable news, and on social media. Some of these critiques had merit, but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262037149
• ISBN13: 9780262037143
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher