Anti-racist scholar-activism

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Manchester University Press, Nov 2, 2021 - Social Science - 280 pages

Anti-racist scholar-activism raises urgent questions about the role of contemporary universities and the academics that work within them. As profound socio-racial crises collide with mass anti-racist mobilisations, this book focuses on the praxes of academics working within, and against, their institutions in pursuit of anti-racist social justice. Amidst a searing critique of the university’s neoliberal and imperial character, Joseph-Salisbury and Connelly situate the university as a contested space, full of contradictions and tensions.

Drawing upon original empirical data, the book considers how anti-racist scholar-activists navigate barriers and backlash in order to leverage the opportunities and resources of the university in service to communities of resistance. Showing praxes of anti-racist scholar-activism to be complex, diverse, and multi-faceted, and paying particular attention to how scholar-activists grapple with their own complicities in the harms perpetrated and perpetuated by Higher Education institutions, this book is a call to arms for academics who are, or want to be, committed to social justice.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

 

Contents

Acknowledgements
uneasy identifications
accountability usefulness and accessibility
stealing from the university
opposition to antiracist scholaractivism within
resistance within and against
Uncomfortable truths reflexivity and a constructive complicity
A manifesto for antiracist scholaractivism
Notes
Index
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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2021)

Remi Joseph-Salisbury is a Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalities at the University of Manchester

Laura Connelly is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Salford

Bibliographic information

TitleAnti-racist scholar-activism
AuthorsRemi Joseph-Salisbury, Laura Connelly
Editionreprint
PublisherManchester University Press, 2021
ISBN1526157942, 9781526157942
Length280 pages
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Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy
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