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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stein, Sharon, 1986- author.

Series:

Critical university studies.

Critical University Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--United States--History.

Education, Higher.

Universities and colleges--United States--History.

Universities and colleges.

Violence.

Violence--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Stein, Sharon Unsettling the University

ISBN:

9781421445052

OCLC:

1352415738