We Are All Students of Color Now

Ananya Roy's reflection on a year of protest at UC Berkeley focuses on the use of "strategic essentialism" as a way of building political coalition across divides of race and class. Shannon Steen considers the links between participation in protests against campus budget cuts by members of arts departments and the funding history of those units. George Lakoff's academic specialty, cognitive linguistics, applies to politics in general; he discusses its special relevance when political issues threaten our universities. Representations 116. Fall 2011 (C) The Regents of the University of California. ISSN 0734-6018, electronic ISSN 1533-855X, pages 177-88. All rights reserved. Direct requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content to the University of California Press at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp. DOI:10.1525/rep.2011.116.1.177.