ERIC Number: EJ1167388
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Feb
Pages: 20
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Historically White Universities and Plantation Politics: Anti-Blackness and Higher Education in the Black Lives Matter Era
Dancy, T. Elon, II; Edwards, Kirsten T.; Earl Davis, James
Urban Education, v53 n2 p176-195 Feb 2018
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.
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Whites, African American Students, Higher Education, College Students, Race, Activism, Land Settlement, Slavery
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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