TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stein, Sharon, 
TI  - Unsettling the university : : confronting the colonial foundations of US higher education 
T2  - Critical university studies
SN  - 9781421445045
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Maryland
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - Violence
N2  - "Over the past several decades, higher education in the United States has been shaped by marketization and privatization. Efforts to critique these developments often rely on a contrast between a bleak present and a romanticized past. In Unsettling the University, Sharon Stein offers a different entry point―one informed by decolonial theories and practices―for addressing these issues. Stein describes the colonial violence underlying three of the most celebrated moments in US higher education history: the founding of the original colonial colleges, the creation of land-grant colleges and universities, and the post–World War II "Golden Age." Reconsidering these historical moments through a decolonial lens, Stein reveals how the central promises of higher education―the promises of continuous progress, a benevolent public good, and social mobility―are fundamentally based on racialized exploitation, expropriation, and ecological destruction. Unsettling the University invites readers to confront universities' historical and ongoing complicity in colonial violence; to reckon with how the past has shaped contemporary challenges at institutions of higher education; and to accept responsibility for redressing harm and repairing relationships in order to reimagine a future for higher education rooted in social and ecological accountability."--
ER  -