This edited volume connects the origins of US higher education during the Colonial Era with current systemic characteristics that maintain white supremacist structures and devalue students and faculty of color, as well as areas of study that interrogate Whiteness. The authors examine power structures within the academy that scaffold Whiteness and promote inequality at all levels by maintaining a two-tier faculty system and a dearth of Faculty and Administrators of Color. Finally, contributors offer systemic and collective solutions toward a more equitable redistribution of power, primarily among faculty and administration, through which other inequities may be identified and more easily addressed.
Author(s): Kenneth R. Roth; Zachary S. Ritter
Series: Palgrave Studies in Race, Inequality and Social Justice in Education
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 252
City: Cham
Preface
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
References
2 Historic Scaffolds of Whiteness in Higher Education
Introduction
The Context of Whiteness
Defining Whiteness
The 4 Dimensions of Whiteness in Higher Education
The History of Whiteness and US Higher Education
Five Historical Moments of Whiteness in US Higher Education
Period 1: Whiteness as a Foundation of US Higher Education
Period 2: Land Grant Act of 1862 and Its Legacy
Period 3: GI Bill
Period 4: Affirmative Action and the Subsequent “Whitelash”
Period 5: Neoliberalism, Post-racism, and the State of Whiteness
Conclusion
References
3 Confronting Ourselves: An Autoethnographic Approach to Whiteness in Higher Education
Introduction
Colorblind Meritocracy
Epistemological Ignorance
White Faculty and Whiteness
Developing Racial Cognizance and Allyship
Critical Autoethnography
Autoethnography
References
4 Counter-Narratives as Critical Invitations for Change: Race-Centered Policy-Making and Backlash at a Peculiar Institution
Introduction
The Campus Life of Xemanon
Critical Methodology
How Does It Feel to Be Invalidated?
Institutional Context
Master and Counter-Narratives
Master Narrative—Invalidity
Counter-Narrative
Backlash
Race Conscious Policy
Faculty Anti-discrimination Policy for Personnel Decisions
The Need for Anti-bullying Policy
Conclusion
References
5 International Students Need Not Apply: Impact of US Immigration Policy in the Trump Era on International Student Enrollment and Campus Experiences
International Student Enrollment
Implications of Enrollment Declines
Enrollment Strategies
Kentucky
Delaware
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The Social Complexities
The Role of International Educators
Changes in International Students’ Interests
White Fragility
Discrimination on Campus
International Student Perspectives
Institutional Responses
Mental Health Services
Advocacy
Post-graduation Support
Recommendations
Conclusion
References
6 Neoliberalism, Neopopulism, and Democracy in Decline: The University Under Attack on Multiple Fronts
Democracy in Crisis
Neoliberalism and the Push to Make Higher Education a Conduit of the Market
Neopopulism and the Push to Undermine and Sculpt the Very Nature of Higher Education
The Future of Higher Education in the Epistemological Miasma
References
7 A Matter of Academic Freedom
Introduction
A New Question on Academic Freedom
1915: A “Declaration” of Academic Freedom
Behind Faculty’s Abdication of Power
The 1960s Breakthrough: A Second Unfinished Revolution of Academic Freedom
Toward A Contract and New Framework for Academic Freedom
Beyond Contractualism: A Class Perspective
References
8 Changing Pathways of Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Any Place for Afrocentric Ideas?
Introduction
Evolution of HBCUs
Initial Funding and Support for HBCUs
Afrocentric Theory
Changing Pathways of HBCUs
Any Place for Afrocentric Ideas?
Conclusion
References
9 The Changing Exasperations of Higher Education
Introduction
Whiteness and Social Stratification Through Higher Education
The Colonial Era—Perpetuating an Elite Class
The University Transformation Era—Beyond Academics
The GI Bill Era—A Whole New Student Population
The Contemporary Era—Promoting Private, or Individual Benefits
The Challenges of Student Affairs as a Patchwork Solution
The Crucial Pivot: Where to from Here?
References
10 Resisting the Neoliberal University with a General Strike
Introduction
Benjamin on the Political Versus the General Strike
W. E. B. Du Bois and the General Strike by Slaves
The General Strike in Seattle: “No One Knows Where” It Will Go
Conclusion
A General University Strike Against Neoliberalism?
11 Abolish the Lecturer: A Manifesto for Faculty Equity
References
12 Racist Algebra of Abjection: A Template of Racial Violence
“Predatory Inclusion”
Is This Fiction?
Portrait #1: “Go Back to Your Country!”
Portrait #2
Portrait #3
John Henryism: The Psychological Costs Are High
References
Index
