Between Race and Reason: Violence, Intellectual Responsibility, and the University to Come
Between Race and Reason: Violence, Intellectual Responsibility, and the University to Come by Susan Searls Giroux
English | July 28, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0804770476 | 296 pages | PDF | 12,2 MB
English | July 28, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0804770476 | 296 pages | PDF | 12,2 MB
Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the heart of higher education in the post-civil rights era. Although we think of "post-civil rights" as representing a colorblind or race transcendent triumphalism in national political discourse, Giroux argues that our present is shaped by persistent "raceless" racism at home and permanent civilizational war abroad.
She sees the university as a primary battleground in this ongoing struggle. As the heir to Enlightenment ideals of civic education, the university should be the institution for the production of an informed and reflective democratic citizenry responsible to and for the civic health of the polity, a privileged site committed to free and equal exchange in the interests of peaceful and democratic coexistence. And yet, says Giroux, historically and currently the university has failed and continues to fail in this role.
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