The Future of Our Worlds

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ID4052319
AuthorsGrace Kyungwon Hong (corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume8
Issue2
Pages95-115
Publication date2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMeridians (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1536-6936 • E-ISSN: 1547-8424
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/mer.2008.8.2.95
OpenAlexW2080099675
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited33

Taking as its point of departure an essay published in 1994 by renowned Black feminist Barbara Christian, this paper examines the U.S. university as a crucial site for contemporary transnational capital's management of race. The university adapts to the new demands of a globalized economy in at least two distinct but related ways. One is certainly in relation to issues of demography and access; in the deindustrializing economy of the United States, the university is complicit in the maintenance of wealth and resource inequities in a variety of ways. Thus, the question of whom the university excludes and whom it exploits is a very important one. However, any complete attempt to address the university's changing role under globalization requires a consideration of the university as an institution of knowledge production, a function that remains surprisingly underexamined. This paper examines these two questions-the economic and the epistemic-in relation to each other, by examining the university's management of racialized bodies as a function of its management of racialized knowledge. Indeed, if we take the university as an exemplary institution of global capital, we find that knowledge production is a key mechanism through which economic or demographic processes are organized. Against such a mobilization of knowledge, this essay situates black feminism as a site of alternative futurity

Capital (architecture) · Economics · Feminism · Function (biology) · Globalization · Institution · Knowledge production · Political science · Production (economics) · Race (biology) · Relation (database) · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society

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