Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education

by Bianca C. Williams, Dian D. Squire, Frank A. Tuitt Narrated by Mia Ellis

Overview

Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions provides a multidisciplinary exploration of the contemporary university's entanglement with the history of slavery and settler colonialism in the United States. Inspired by more than a hundred student-led protests during the Movement for Black Lives, contributors examine how campus rebellions-and university responses to them-expose the racialized inequities at the core of higher education.



Plantation politics are embedded in the everyday workings of universities-in not only the physical structures and spaces of academic institutions, but in its recruitment and attainment strategies, hiring practices, curriculum, and notions of sociality, safety, and community. The book is comprised of three sections that highlight how white supremacy shapes campus communities and classrooms; how current diversity and inclusion initiatives perpetuate inequality; and how students, staff, and faculty practice resistance in the face of institutional and legislative repression. The volume is indispensable for students, faculty, student affairs professionals, and administrators invested in learning more about how power operates within education and imagining emancipatory futures.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"…Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions is notable in that it signals one of the first extended meditations on antiblackness in higher education in its collection of writings and engagements across disciplinary type. Further, what this text makes most crucially clear in its investment in mapping the power relations of plantation is an invitation to center the actions of Black people directly––often painfully absent in scholarship that attends anti-black racism. And for that reason alone, the text deserves more than credit." — Professor Educator Advance

"This collection of essays is a timely and vital contribution to the examination of race in higher education. These are hard-hitting essays from an extraordinary slate of contributors." — Ms. Magazine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940176122176
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	03/15/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged

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