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Unsettling the university : confronting the colonial foundations of US higher education / Sharon Stein.

Author/creator Stein, Sharon, 1986- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
Copyright Notice ©2022
Description325 pages ; 22 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Critical university studies
Critical university studies. ^A1325808
Contents Introduction -- A colonial history of the higher education present -- The violent origins of US higher education in the colonial and antebellum eras -- Dispossession at the roots of "democracy's colleges" : the colonial legacy of land grant institutions -- The "golden age" of higher education and the underside of the American dream -- Inclusion is not reparation: reckoning with violence or reproducing higher education exceptionalism? -- Imagining higher education otherwise.
Abstract "In this trenchant work of critical studies, the author retells the celebrated stories of US higher education history against the grain in order to identify their colonial past"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 281-316) and index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9781421445052
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2022005888
ISBN9781421445045 hardcover
ISBN1421445042 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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