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Emancipatory Change in US Higher Education

Felix Kumah-Abiwu editor Zachary S Ritter editor Kenneth R Roth editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:8th Dec '22

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This edited volume explores and deconstructs the possibilities of higher education beyond its initial purpose. The book contextualizes and argues for a more robust interrogation of persistent patterns of campus inequality driven by rapid demographic change, reduced public spending in higher education, and an increasingly polarized political landscape. It offers contemporary views and critiques ideas and practices such as micro-aggressions, implicit and explicit bias, and their consequences in reifying racial and gender-based inequalities on members of nondominant groups. The book also highlights coping mechanisms and resistance strategies that have enabled members of nondominant groups to contest primarily racial- and gender- based inequity. In doing so, it identifies new ways higher education can do what it professes to do better, in all ways, from providing real benefit to students and communities, while also setting a bar for society to more effectively realize its stated purpose and creed.

ISBN: 9783031111235

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Weight: unknown

261 pages

1st ed. 2023