Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism

By Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Laura Connelly

Book Overview

Anti-racist scholar-activism raises urgent questions about the role of contemporary universities and the academics that work within them. As profound socio-racial crises collide with mass anti-racist mobilisations, this book focuses on the praxes of academics working within, and against, their institutions in pursuit of anti-racist social justice. Amidst a searing critique of the university's neoliberal and imperial character, Joseph-Salisbury and Connelly situate the university as a contested space, full of contradictions and tensions.

Drawing upon original empirical data, the book considers how anti-racist scholar-activists navigate barriers and backlash in order to leverage the opportunities and resources of the university in service to communities of resistance. Showing praxes of anti-racist scholar-activism to be complex, diverse, and multi-faceted, and paying particular attention to how scholar-activists grapple with their own complicities in the harms perpetrated and perpetuated by Higher Education institutions, this book is a call to arms for academics who are, or want to be, committed to social justice.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526157969
• ISBN13: 9781526157966
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"