Coloniality and Racial (in)Justice in the University
Counting for Nothing?
Published on 8. November 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
422 pages
978-1-4875-2381-7 (ISBN)
Description
Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University examines the disruption and remaking of the university at a moment in history when white supremacist politics have erupted across North America, as have anti-racist and anti-colonial movements. Situating the university at the heart of these momentous developments, this collection debunks the popular claim that the university is well on its way to overcoming its histories of racial exclusion.
Written by faculty and students located at various levels within the institutional hierarchy, this book demonstrates how the shadows of settler colonialism and racial division are reiterated in "newer" neoliberal practices. Drawing on critical race and Indigenous theory, the chapters challenge Eurocentric knowledge, institutional whiteness, and structural discrimination that are the bedrock of the institution.
The authors also analyse their own experiences to show how Indigenous dispossession, racial violence, administrative prejudice, and imperialist militarization shape classroom interactions within the university.
Written by faculty and students located at various levels within the institutional hierarchy, this book demonstrates how the shadows of settler colonialism and racial division are reiterated in "newer" neoliberal practices. Drawing on critical race and Indigenous theory, the chapters challenge Eurocentric knowledge, institutional whiteness, and structural discrimination that are the bedrock of the institution.
The authors also analyse their own experiences to show how Indigenous dispossession, racial violence, administrative prejudice, and imperialist militarization shape classroom interactions within the university.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-2381-7 (9781487523817)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Sunera Thobani is a professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Content
Foreword
Beverly Bain and Min Sook Lee
Introduction: Present Pasts: The Anxieties of Power
Sunera Thobani
1?Don't Cry, Fight! vs. Deference to the Corporate State: Abrogation of Indigenous Rights and Title, Civil Rights, and Social and Environmental Justice at the Imperialist University
annie ross
2?The State Is a Man: Theresa Spence, Loretta Saunders, and the Gender of Settler Sovereignty.
Audra Simpson
3?Colonizing Critical Race Studies/Scholars: Counting for Nothing?.
Sunera Thobani
4?"Our Canadian Culture Has Been Squeamish about Gathering Race-Based Statistics": The Circulation of Discourses of Race and Whiteness among Canadian Universities, Newspapers, and Alt-Right Groups.
Enakshi Dua
5?Access Denied: Safe/guarding the University as White Property.
Delia D. Douglas
6?Invisibility, Marginalization, Injustice, Dehumanization: Precariousness in the Academy.
Sarika Bose
7?Refusing Diversity in the Militarized Settler Academy.
Carol W.N. Fadda and Dana M. Olwan
8?How Canadian Universities Fail Black Non-Binary Students.
Cicely-Belle Blain
9?Interrogating White Supremacy in Academia: Creating Alternative Spaces for Racialized Students' Scholarship and Well-Being.
Benita Bunjun
10?Dreaming Big in Small Spaces: Prefiguring Change in the Racial University.
Jin Haritaworn
Contributors
Beverly Bain and Min Sook Lee
Introduction: Present Pasts: The Anxieties of Power
Sunera Thobani
1?Don't Cry, Fight! vs. Deference to the Corporate State: Abrogation of Indigenous Rights and Title, Civil Rights, and Social and Environmental Justice at the Imperialist University
annie ross
2?The State Is a Man: Theresa Spence, Loretta Saunders, and the Gender of Settler Sovereignty.
Audra Simpson
3?Colonizing Critical Race Studies/Scholars: Counting for Nothing?.
Sunera Thobani
4?"Our Canadian Culture Has Been Squeamish about Gathering Race-Based Statistics": The Circulation of Discourses of Race and Whiteness among Canadian Universities, Newspapers, and Alt-Right Groups.
Enakshi Dua
5?Access Denied: Safe/guarding the University as White Property.
Delia D. Douglas
6?Invisibility, Marginalization, Injustice, Dehumanization: Precariousness in the Academy.
Sarika Bose
7?Refusing Diversity in the Militarized Settler Academy.
Carol W.N. Fadda and Dana M. Olwan
8?How Canadian Universities Fail Black Non-Binary Students.
Cicely-Belle Blain
9?Interrogating White Supremacy in Academia: Creating Alternative Spaces for Racialized Students' Scholarship and Well-Being.
Benita Bunjun
10?Dreaming Big in Small Spaces: Prefiguring Change in the Racial University.
Jin Haritaworn
Contributors