Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism

Anti-racist scholar-activism is a critical approach to addressing racial inequality in universities. It challenges the neoliberal and imperial nature of institutions and calls for academics to work towards anti-racist social justice. The book provides empirical data on the experiences of anti-racist scholar-activists and explores how they navigate barriers and backlash to leverage university resources for communities of resistance. It emphasizes the complexity, diversity, and multi-faceted nature of scholar-activism and highlights the need for academics to confront their own complicities in perpetuating harm.

Format: Hardback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press

Raising urgent questions about the role of contemporary universities and the academics that work within them, anti-racist scholar-activism delves into the complex dynamics of academics navigating 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 position the university as a contested space, teeming with contradictions and tensions.

Drawing upon original empirical data, the book explores how anti-racist scholar-activists navigate barriers and backlash to leverage the opportunities and resources of the university in service to communities of resistance. Showing the praxes of anti-racist scholar-activism to be complex, diverse, and multi-faceted, the book pays particular attention to how scholar-activists grapple with their own complicities in the harms perpetrated and perpetuated by Higher Education institutions. This book serves as a call to arms for academics who are committed to social justice, particularly relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4, Quality education.

Dimension: 198 x 129 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526157959