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Historically White Universities and Plantation Politics: Anti-Blackness and Higher Education in the Black Lives Matter Era
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In this article, the authors argue that U.S. colleges and universities must grapple with persistent engagements of Black bodies as property. Engaging the research and scholarship on Black faculty, staff, and students, we explain how theorizations of settler colonialism and anti-Blackness (re)interpret the arrangement between historically White universities and Black people. The authors contend that a particular political agenda that engages the Black body as property, not merely concerns for disproportionality and inequality, is deeply embedded in institutional policy and practice. The article concludes with a vision for what awareness of anti-Black settler colonialism means for U.S. higher education.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dancy, T. E., Edwards, K. T., & Earl Davis, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Oklahoma (US)
- Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Corresponding author
- Dancy, T. Elon
- ORCID
- Edwards, Kirsten T.
- Venue
- Urban Education
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2018-01-25
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 176-195
- ISSN
- 0042-0859 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-8340
- OpenAlex
- W2785009955
- Cited by
- 323
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 41 · 2024: 59 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 51 · 2021: 42 · 2020: 53 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 4
- FWCI
- 64.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Urban Education (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Race Theory in Education
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, Identity, and Education in Brazil
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
- Keywords
- anti-Blackness, settler colonialism, historically white universities, Black Lives Matter, higher education, institutional policy, racial disparities in higher education
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