The New White Nationalism in Politics and Higher Education: The Nostalgia Spectrum

The New White Nationalism in Politics and Higher Education analyses a new form of white nationalism that seeks to recruit mainstream citizens and sees higher education as a threat to achieving its goals. In doing so, Michael H. Gavin provides a tool, The Nostalgia Spectrum, to examine American racism within the text.

The New White Nationalism in Politics and Higher Education analyses a new form of white nationalism that seeks to recruit mainstream citizens to achieve its goals, and sees higher education, which impart fact-based knowledge and interrogates history, social structures, and power, often from antiracist and multicultural lenses, as a threat. Michael H. Gavin reveals the tactics of The New White Nationalism and provides a tool called The Nostalgia Spectrum to examine American racism. In the process, the author demonstrates that what many scholars are calling a crisis in higher education is really a crisis of political and social imagination. Reimagining a socially just nation and leveraging higher education institutions that provide low-cost, accessible education to minorities as the first choice for middle class America could have transformative effects on the nation itself.

Weight: 467g
Dimension: 228 x 162 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793629678