{"product_id":"unsettling-the-university-sharon-stein-9781421445045","title":"Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of Us Higher Education","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShifts the narrative around the history of US higher education to examine its colonial past.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past several decades, higher education in the United States has been shaped by marketization and privatization. Efforts to critique these developments often rely on a contrast between a bleak present and a romanticized past. In \u003ci\u003eUnsettling the University\u003c\/i\u003e, Sharon Stein offers a different entry point--one informed by decolonial theories and practices--for addressing these issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStein describes the colonial violence underlying three of the most celebrated moments in US higher education history: the founding of the original colonial colleges, the creation of land-grant colleges and universities, and the post-World War II \"Golden Age.\" Reconsidering these historical moments through a decolonial lens, Stein reveals how the central promises of higher education--the promises of continuous progress, a benevolent public good, and social mobility--are fundamentally based on racialized exploitation, expropriation, and ecological destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnsettling the University\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to confront universities' historical and ongoing complicity in colonial violence; to reckon with how the past has shaped contemporary challenges at institutions of higher education; and to accept responsibility for redressing harm and repairing relationships in order to reimagine a future for higher education rooted in social and ecological accountability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sharon Stein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421445042\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421445045\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.10h x 5.20w x 1.90d","brand":"Sharon Stein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44133263180031,"sku":"9781421445045","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8ba706fb-4cc8-4dae-9146-3663f58751f2.jpg?v=1687485055","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unsettling-the-university-sharon-stein-9781421445045","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}