Ebook: Dismantling race in higher education: racism, whiteness and decolonising the academy

Part I: Introduction. Racism in higher education: 'What then, can be done?' -- Part II: Let the facts speak: institutional racism in higher education. The rise and fall in the salience of race equality in higher education -- Race and elite universities in the UK -- Ethnic inequalities in admission to highly selective universities -- Understanding the under-attainment of ethnic minority students in UK higher education: the known knowns and the known unknowns -- Unequal returns: higher education and access to the salariat by ethnic groups in the UK -- Should I stay or should I go? BME academics and the decision to leave UK higher education -- Part III: Outsiders within the academy: surviving the 'sheer weight of whiteness.' 'Are you supposed to be in here?' Racial microaggressions and knowledge production in higher education -- Being Black, male and academic: navigating the white academy -- Black bodies 'out of place' in academic spaces: gender, race, faith and culture in post-race times -- White privilege, empathy and alterity in higher education: teaching about race and racism in the sociology of PE and sport -- Access and inclusion for Gypsy and Traveller students in higher education -- Islamophobia in higher education: Muslim students and the "duty of care" -- Part IV: Seize the day! The irresistible rise of decolonising movements. Why is my curriculum white? a brief genealogy of resistance -- The Black studies movement in Britain: becoming an institution, not institutionalised -- "Free, decolonised education": a lesson from the South African student struggle -- Decolonising Oxford: the student movement from Stuart Hall to Skin Deep -- Part V: Brick walls and tick boxes: the 'white-washing' of equality and diversity policies. The heart of whiteness: racial gesture politics, equity and higher education -- Rocking the boat: women of colour as diversity workers -- Leadership for race and social justice in higher education -- Trans/forming pedagogical spaces: race, belonging and recognition in higher education -- So what next? A policy response.;"This book reveals the roots of structural racism that limit social mobility and equality within Britain for Black and ethnicised students and academics in its inherently white Higher Education institutions. It brings together both established and emerging scholars in the fields of Race and Education to explore what institutional racism in British Higher Education looks like in colour-blind 'post-race' times, when racism is deemed to be 'off the political agenda'. Keeping pace with our rapidly changing global universities, this edited collection asks difficult and challenging questions, including why black academics leave the system; why the curriculum is still white; how elite universities reproduce race privilege; and how Black, Muslim and Gypsy traveller students are disadvantaged and excluded. The book also discusses why British racial equality legislation has failed to address racism, and explores what the Black student movement is doing about this. As the authors powerfully argue, it is only by dismantling the invisible architecture of post-colonial white privilege that the 21st century struggle for a truly decolonised academy can begin. This collection will be essential reading for students and academics working in the fields of Education, Sociology, and Race"--Publisher's description.