Speaking Out Against Racism in the University Space

This book yields valuable new insights into race and racism in higher education institutions. The powerful combination of accounts by minoritized students of their experiences and views, the frame of analysis based on Critical Race Theory, and the personal affinity and empathy of the author with her students, reveal the institutionalized structures, bigoted opinions and insidious discrimination that prevail. Yet universities should be challenging racism and Islamophobia, particularly when it is rising and spreading. The book shows how they can examine their staff and student recruitment, investigate their teaching methods and policies, and decolonize their curricula. How we listen to the student voice, and the spaces the university provides for minoritized students to speak freely are the first steps to making institutions of higher education truly inclusive--the domain of social justice.

This powerful combination of accounts by students of their experiences and views, a frame of analysis based on Critical Race Theory, and the personal affinity and empathy with her students of the author, yield valuable insights into racism and Islamophobia in higher education institutions, and indicate how they can be tackled.