Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy

Jason Arday, Heidi Safia Mirza

Springer, Aug 31, 2018 - Education - 396 pages

This book reveals the roots of structural racism that limit social mobility and equality within Britain for Black and ethnicised students and academics in its inherently white Higher Education institutions. It brings together both established and emerging scholars in the fields of Race and Education to explore what institutional racism in British Higher Education looks like in colour-blind 'post-race' times, when racism is deemed to be ‘off the political agenda’. Keeping pace with our rapidly changing global universities, this edited collection asks difficult and challenging questions, including why black academics leave the system; why the curriculum is still white; how elite universities reproduce race privilege; and how Black, Muslim and Gypsy traveller students are disadvantaged and excluded.

The book also discusses why British racial equality legislation has failed to address racism, and explores what the Black student movement is doing about this. As the authors powerfully argue, it is only by dismantling the invisible architecture of post-colonial white privilege that the 21st century struggle for a truly decolonised academy can begin. This collection will be essential reading for students and academics working in the fields of Education, Sociology, and Race.

Contents

• What Then Can Be Done?: 3
• Institutional Racism in Higher Education: 24
• 2 The Rise and Fall in the Salience of Race Equality in Higher Education: 25
• 3 Race and Elite Universities in the UK: 47
• 4 Ethnic Inequalities in Admission to Highly Selective Universities: 67
• The Known Knowns and the Known Unknowns: 86
• Higher Education and Access to the Salariat by Ethnic Groups in the UK: 103
• 7 Should I Stay or Should I Go? BME Academics and the Decision to Leave UK Higher Education: 125
• Surviving the Sheer Weight of Whiteness: 140
• 8 Are You Supposed to Be in Here? Racial Microaggressions and Knowledge Production in Higher Education: 141
• Navigating the White Academy: 161
• Gender Race Faith and Culture in Postrace Times: 175
• 11 White Privilege Empathy and Alterity in Higher EducationTeaching About Race and Racism in the Sociology of PE and Sport: 195
• 12 Access and Inclusion for Gypsy and Traveller Students in Higher Education: 214
• Muslim Students and the Duty of Care: 233
• Part IV Seize the Day The Irresistible Rise of Decolonising Movements: 251
• 14 Why Is My Curriculum White? A Brief Genealogy of Resistance: 253
• Becoming an Institution Not Institutionalised: 271
• 16 Free Decolonised EducationA Lesson from the South African Student Struggle: 288
• The Student Movement from Stuart Hall to Skin Deep: 297
• The WhiteWashing of Equality and Diversity Policies: 310
• Racial Gesture Politics Equity and Higher Education: 311
• Women of Colour as Diversity Workers: 331
• 20 Leadership for Race and Social Justice in Higher Education: 349
• Race Belonging and Recognition in Higher Education: 365
• 22 So What Next? A Policy Response: 383
• Index: 391

About the author

Jason Arday is a Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at Roehampton University, UK, a Visiting Research Fellow at The Ohio State University in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, a Trustee of the Runnymede Trust and Co-Chair of the Runnymede Academic Forum. Heidi Safia Mirza is Professor of Race, Faith and Culture at Goldsmith's College, University of London, UK. She is known for her pioneering intersectional research on race, gender and identity in education.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy
• Editors: Jason Arday, Heidi Safia Mirza
• Publisher: Springer, 2018
• ISBN: 3319602616, 9783319602615
• Length: 396 pages
• Subjects: Education / Adult & Continuing Education; Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General; Education / General; Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects; Education / Schools / Levels / Higher; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General; Social Science / General; Social Science / Sociology / General