Building the Anti-Racist University

In the new arena for anti-racist work in which we find ourselves, the neo-liberal, ‘post-race’ university, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates common global political concerns about racism in Higher Education. It highlights a range of issues regarding students, academic staff and knowledge systems, and all of the contributions seek to challenge the complacency of the ‘post-race’ present that is dominant in North-West Europe and North America, Brazil’s mythical ‘racial democracy’ and South Africa’s post-apartheid ‘rainbow nation’.

The collection makes clear that we are not yet past the need for anti-racist institutional action because of the continuing impact of coloniality on and in these nations.

Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Shirley Anne Tate is Honorary Professor, Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. Her area of research is Black diaspora studies broadly. Her work focuses on the intersections of ‘race’ and gender, and her research interests are institutional racism, the body, affect, ‘mixed race’, beauty, ‘race’ performativity and Caribbean decolonial studies.

Paul Bagguley is Reader in Sociology in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, UK. His main interests are in the sociology of social movements, racism and ethnicity. In the field of racism and ethnicity studies he has worked on the 2001 riots, South Asian women and higher education, the impacts of the 7/7 London bombings on different ethnic and religious groups in West Yorkshire and the cosmopolitanism of traditional British retail markets. More broadly his research interests and publications have encompassed economic sociology, urban studies and social theory.