Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy

Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy
ISBN-10
3319602616
ISBN-13
9783319602615
Category
Education
Pages
396
Language
English
Published
2018-08-31
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Heidi Safia Mirza, Jason Arday

Description

This book reveals the roots of structural racism that limit social mobility and equality within Britain for Black and ethnicised students and academics in its inherently white Higher Education institutions. It brings together both established and emerging scholars in the fields of Race and Education to explore what institutional racism in British Higher Education looks like in colour-blind 'post-race' times, when racism is deemed to be ‘off the political agenda’. Keeping pace with our rapidly changing global universities, this edited collection asks difficult and challenging questions, including why black academics leave the system; why the curriculum is still white; how elite universities reproduce race privilege; and how Black, Muslim and Gypsy traveller students are disadvantaged and excluded. The book also discusses why British racial equality legislation has failed to address racism, and explores what the Black student movement is doing about this. As the authors powerfully argue, it is only by dismantling the invisible architecture of post-colonial white privilege that the 21st century struggle for a truly decolonised academy can begin. This collection will be essential reading for students and academics working in the fields of Education, Sociology, and Race.

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