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

• Autore: Giroux Susan Searls <1968->
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 378.73089
• Soggetto topico: Racism in higher education - United States; Education, Higher - Political aspects - United States; Racism - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Between race and reason
• ISBN: 0-8047-7511-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818957903321
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