Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Sunera Thobani
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.580kg
ISBN: 9781487523817
ISBN 10: 1487523815
Pages: 422
Publication Date: 08 November 2021
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Make no mistake here - Canadian universities and colleges are spaces that have minimized and denied the truth of residential schools, leaving Indigenous survivors, communities, and families to try to find a path to truth, justice, and accountability for a genocide. Canadian thought leaders at universities have been painfully slow to offer culturally safe space for Indigenous thought leaders and scholars, often privileging colleagues who feel unbridled to push back hard on the work of these disruptors. This book is refreshing, honest, and necessary reading for those who seek to work and speak truth within our institutions of higher learning. - Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia Sunera Thobani has given us a fascinating collection of works on the ways in which systemic racism, sexism, and similar oppressions function in universities. This is an entirely helpful set of analyses and insights, which can only help to improve the scholarly spaces into which we invite our students. Scholars, students, and activists will want to read this timely intervention into the contemporary conversation on systemic racism and other forms of oppression perpetuated in the ivory towers that determine so much of our elites' thinking on these matters. - Joyce Green, Professor Emerita of Politics and International Studies, University of Regina
"""Sunera Thobani has given us a fascinating collection of works on the ways in which systemic racism, sexism, and similar oppressions function in universities. This is an entirely helpful set of analyses and insights, which can only help to improve the scholarly spaces into which we invite our students. Scholars, students, and activists will want to read this timely intervention into the contemporary conversation on systemic racism and other forms of oppression perpetuated in the ivory towers that determine so much of our elites' thinking on these matters.""--Joyce Green, Professor Emerita of Politics and International Studies, University of Regina"
Author Information
Sunera Thobani is a professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.
