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Unsettling the University : Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education /

"In this trenchant work of critical studies, the author retells the celebrated stories of US higher education history against the grain in order to identify their colonial past"--

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Stein, Sharon, 1986- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • A colonial history of the higher education present
  • The violent origins of US higher education in the colonial and antebellum eras
  • Dispossession at the roots of "democracy's colleges" : the colonial legacy of land grant institutions
  • The "golden age" of higher education and the underside of the American dream
  • Inclusion is not reparation: reckoning with violence or reproducing higher education exceptionalism?
  • Imagining higher education otherwise.