Background/Context: Overcoming the deeply embedded anti-Black racism and colonial heritage of Nor... more Background/Context: Overcoming the deeply embedded anti-Black racism and colonial heritage of North America is an ongoing project. As a broadly theoretical field, scholars have yet to explicate fully the ways that racism and colonialism are foundational to the construction of institutions of higher education.
Purpose: Plantation politics provides the opportunity to reveal parallel organizational and cultural norms between contemporary higher education institutions and plantations. To better explore the applicability of this theory, the authors share an example of the parallel between plantations and contemporary universities called “The Oxymoronic Social Existence of Whites (or Neoliberalism as the New Slave Code)” and its implications for campus practice toward racial liberation.
Conclusions: The authors argue that the institutional logics of colonialism and imperialism—which were essential to the establishment of this country and led to the creation of plantations and the enslavement of Black people—exists within higher education institutions today.
The purpose of this article is to describe a curricular change process used to incorporate inclus... more The purpose of this article is to describe a curricular change process used to incorporate inclusivity and diversity in a Higher Education Ph.D. program. The efforts of faculty members and students to practice engaged pedagogy as advocated by bell hooks are also described. Accounts from two agents, a professor and assistant professor working in the graduate program, of the re-envisioning
Background/Context: Overcoming the deeply embedded anti-Black racism and colonial heritage of Nor... more Background/Context: Overcoming the deeply embedded anti-Black racism and colonial heritage of North America is an ongoing project. As a broadly theoretical field, scholars have yet to explicate fully the ways that racism and colonialism are foundational to the construction of institutions of higher education.
Purpose: Plantation politics provides the opportunity to reveal parallel organizational and cultural norms between contemporary higher education institutions and plantations. To better explore the applicability of this theory, the authors share an example of the parallel between plantations and contemporary universities called “The Oxymoronic Social Existence of Whites (or Neoliberalism as the New Slave Code)” and its implications for campus practice toward racial liberation.
Conclusions: The authors argue that the institutional logics of colonialism and imperialism—which were essential to the establishment of this country and led to the creation of plantations and the enslavement of Black people—exists within higher education institutions today.
The purpose of this article is to describe a curricular change process used to incorporate inclus... more The purpose of this article is to describe a curricular change process used to incorporate inclusivity and diversity in a Higher Education Ph.D. program. The efforts of faculty members and students to practice engaged pedagogy as advocated by bell hooks are also described. Accounts from two agents, a professor and assistant professor working in the graduate program, of the re-envisioning
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Purpose: Plantation politics provides the opportunity to reveal parallel organizational and cultural norms between contemporary higher education institutions and plantations. To better explore the applicability of this theory, the authors share an example of the parallel between plantations and contemporary universities called “The Oxymoronic Social Existence of Whites (or Neoliberalism as the New Slave Code)” and its implications for campus practice toward racial liberation.
Conclusions: The authors argue that the institutional logics of colonialism and imperialism—which were essential to the establishment of this country and led to the creation of plantations and the enslavement of Black people—exists within higher education institutions today.
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Purpose: Plantation politics provides the opportunity to reveal parallel organizational and cultural norms between contemporary higher education institutions and plantations. To better explore the applicability of this theory, the authors share an example of the parallel between plantations and contemporary universities called “The Oxymoronic Social Existence of Whites (or Neoliberalism as the New Slave Code)” and its implications for campus practice toward racial liberation.
Conclusions: The authors argue that the institutional logics of colonialism and imperialism—which were essential to the establishment of this country and led to the creation of plantations and the enslavement of Black people—exists within higher education institutions today.