Between race and reason : violence, intellectual responsibility, and the university to come / Susan Searls Giroux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giroux, Susan Searls, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism in higher education--United States.

Racism in higher education.

Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.

Education, Higher.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the heart of higher education in the post-civil rights era. Although we think of "post-civil rights" as representing a colorblind or race transcendent triumphalism in national political discourse, Giroux argues that our present is shaped by persistent "raceless" racism at home and permanent civilizational war abroad. She sees the university as a primary battleground in this ongoing struggle. As the heir to Enlightenment ideals of civic education, the university should be the institution for the production of an informed and reflective democratic citizenry responsible to and for the civic health of the polity, a privileged site committed to free and equal exchange in the interests of peaceful and democratic coexistence. And yet, says Giroux, historically and currently the university has failed and continues to fail in this role. Between Race and Reason engages the work of diverse intellectuals—Friedrich Nietzsche, W. E. B. Du Bois, Michel Foucault, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jacques Derrida and others—who challenge the university's past and present collusion with racism and violence. The book complements recent work done on the politics of higher education that has examined the consequences of university corporatization, militarization, and bureaucratic rationalization by focusing on the ways in which these elements of a broader neoliberal project are also racially prompted and promoted. At the same time, it undertakes to imagine how the university can be reconceived as a uniquely privileged site for critique in the interests of today's urgent imperatives for peace and justice.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The University to Come

Chapter One. Notes on the Afterlife of Dreams: On the Persistence of Racism in Post–Civil Rights America

Chapter Two. Playing in the Dark: Racial Repression and the New Campus Crusade for Diversity

Chapter Three The Age of Unreason: Race and the Drama of American Anti-Intellectualism

Chapter Four. Generation Kill: Nietzschean Meditations on the University, Youth, War, and Guns

Chapter Five. Critique of Racial Violence: The Theologico-Political Reflections of Lewis R. Gordon

Chapter Six. Beyond the Racial Blindspot: DuBoisian Visions for a Reconstructed America

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780804775113

0804775117

OCLC:

669493013