Jerry Farber is an American educator and writer. Currently a professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University

San Diego State University

San Diego State University , founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area , and is part of the California State University system...

, he is widely known as the author of a 1960s anti-establishment essay, "The Student as Nigger

The Student as Nigger

The Student as Nigger is the title of an essay and subsequent book by American educator Jerry Farber.The essay first appeared in the Los Angeles Free Press in 1967 and is often cited as one of the first underground publications to receive widespread recognition...

," in which he likened the student–professor relationship in American universities to that of slave and master. This piece, based on his experience as a teacher and as an often-arrested activist in the civil rights movement, served as the title essay of his first book. Subsequent books were The University of Tomorrowland and A Field Guide to the Aesthetic Experience. Since then he has published essays that include "Learning How to Teach: A Progress Report," "The Third Circle: On Education and Distance Learning," "Aesthetic Subjectivity and the Teaching of Literature," and "What Is Literature? What Is Art? Integrating Essence and History."

External links

_http://www.reportingcivilrights.org/authors/bio.jsp?authorId=106 Reporting Civil Rights: Jerry Farber --- broken link web site expired

Civil Rights Greensboro: Jerry Farber