{"product_id":"the-scandal-of-cal-tony-platt-9781597146210","title":"The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at Uc Berkeley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe incendiary story of conquest, racism, warfare, and historical amnesia at one of the world's most celebrated and ostensibly enlightened public universities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThis\u003c\/i\u003e is a land acknowledgment.\" --\u003cb\u003eRuth Wilson Gilmore\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAbolition Geography: Essays towards Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Scandal of Cal\u003c\/i\u003e is a template for scrutinizing other land-grant universities ... This is a beautifully written and heartbreaking narrative.\" --\u003cb\u003eRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAn Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe University of California, Berkeley--widely known as \"Cal\"--is admired worldwide as a bastion of innovation and a hub for progressive thought. Far less known are the university's roots in plunder, warfare, and the promotion of white supremacy. As Tony Platt shows in \u003ci\u003eThe Scandal of Cal\u003c\/i\u003e, these original sins sit at the center of UC Berkeley's history. Platt looks unflinchingly at the university's desecration of graves and large-scale hoarding of Indigenous remains. He tracks its role in developing the racist pseudoscience of eugenics in the early twentieth century. He sheds light on the school's complicity with the military-industrial complex and its incubation of unprecedented violence through the Manhattan Project. And he underscores its deliberate and continued evasions about its own wrongdoings, which echo in the institution's decision-making up to the present day. This book, above all, illuminates Cal's culpability in some of the cruelest chapters of US history and sounds a clarion call for the university to undertake a thorough and earnest reckoning with its past. It is required reading for Cal alumni, students, faculty, and staff, and for anyone concerned with the impact of higher education in the United States and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tony Platt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1597146218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781597146210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Heyday Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/18\/2023","brand":"Tony Platt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44131766894847,"sku":"9781597146210","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f0d2328f-de05-40a5-ad32-eeecd18ed646.jpg?v=1687476280","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-scandal-of-cal-tony-platt-9781597146210","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}