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

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"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stein, Sharon, 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Violence.
Universities and colleges.
Education, Higher.
EDUCATION / History.
Violence > États-Unis > Histoire.
Universites > États-Unis > Histoire.
Violence > United States > History.
Universities and colleges > United States > History.
Education, Higher > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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