{"product_id":"the-scandal-of-cal-tony-platt-9781597146807","title":"The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at Uc Berkeley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback: \"A profound alternative institutional history, one that sees the long arm of institutional racism implicated everywhere.\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e)\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\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tony Platt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1597146803\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781597146807\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Heyday Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Tony Platt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46431655100671,"sku":"9781597146807","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_244a4f03-01aa-4fe6-b4bf-376c52cb8c06.jpg?v=1735141991","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-scandal-of-cal-tony-platt-9781597146807","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}