Between Race and Reason

by Giroux, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780804770484
• ISBN10: 0804770484
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-28
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the very heart of thinking about higher education in the post-civil rights era. Although the designation "post-civil rights" signifies a colorblind or race transcendent triumphalism in national political discourse, Giroux argues that our present is shaped by persistent, more subtle, but no less destructive "raceless" racism at home and permanent civilizational war abroad.

Author Biography

Susan Searls Giroux is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. She is co-author, with Henry A. Giroux, of Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Era (2004) and, with Jeffrey T. Nealon, The Theory Toolbox: Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (2003).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: The University to Come	p. 1
Challenging three Decades of Colorblind Racism
Notes on the Afterlife of Dreams: On the Persistence of Racism in Post-Civil Rights America	p. 33
Playing in the Dark: Racial Repression and the New Campus Crusade for Diversity	p. 51
The Age of Unreason: Race and the Drama of American Anti-Intellectualism	p. 74
Theorizing Race, State, and Violence: The Pedagogical Imperative
Generation Kill: Nietzschean Meditations on the University, Youth, War, and Guns	p. 129
Critique of Racial Violence: The Theologico-Political Reflections of Lewis R. Gordon	p. 162
Beyond the Blindspot of Race: DuBoisian Visions for a Reconstructed America	p. 191
Notes	p. 245
Bibliography	p. 263
Index	p. 275
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