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Jirik, Michael E.

 
9781479836611: Dissenting Forces: A History of Abolition and Black Thought in Higher Learning
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ISBN 10 : 1479836613 ISBN 13 : 9781479836611
Editeur : New York University Press, 2025

Synopsis

A history of enslaved people and abolitionists who fought racism on college campuses and reimagined higher learning

Since their inception in North America, universities have had symbiotic ties to racial slavery and settler colonialism and were incubators of racist thought. In Dissenting Forces, Michael E. Jirik offers a comprehensive study of an underrepresented history: the rise and development of Black thought and abolitionist resistance in American universities.

Jirik offers a rich scope of abolitionist protests at colleges, demonstrating how enslaved people, Black abolitionists, and student abolitionists resisted enslavement and racism within, and on the boundaries of, college campuses for centuries. Studying their history and experiences, Black people used intellectual work to advance their struggle for liberation. With the advent of a transformed abolition movement after 1830, Black and white student abolitionists intellectually fought colonizationists on campus to shape arguments for Black freedom and intellectuality that challenged dominant white-supremacist ideologies. In turn, they created a student movement for Black freedom and human equality, making demands for admissions into colleges, and creating the earliest Black colleges in the United States.

Demonstrating the ways Black people have resisted racism and forms of oppression in higher learning, Dissenting Forces sheds new light on the significance of Black self-determination and the continuity of Black knowledge traditions committed to creating a different world. Collectively, they developed an idea of Black education's liberatory potential.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael E. Jirik is Assistant Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

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Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1479836613
ISBN 13 
9781479836611
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
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