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Historically White Universities and Plantation Politics

Anti-Blackness and Higher Education in the Black Lives Matter Era

Bibliographic Data

ID10856484
AuthorsT Elon Dancy (University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA, corresponding author), Kirsten T Edwards (0000-0003-1761-7675, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA), J E Davis (0000-0003-4417-8989, Temple University)
Year2018
Volume53
Issue2
Pages176-195
Publication date2018-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0042-0859 • E-ISSN: 1552-8340
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0042085918754328
OpenAlexW2785009955
LanguageEN
Citations received160
References cited39

In this article, the authors argue that U.S. colleges and universities must grapple with persistent engagements of Black bodies as property. Engaging the research and scholarship on Black faculty, staff, and students, we explain how theorizations of settler colonialism and anti-Blackness (re)interpret the arrangement between historically White universities and Black people. The authors contend that a particular political agenda that engages the Black body as property, not merely concerns for disproportionality and inequality, is deeply embedded in institutional policy and practice. The article concludes with a vision for what awareness of anti-Black settler colonialism means for U.S. higher education

Black male · Colonialism · Higher education · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy) · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation) · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society

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