Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions provides a multidisciplinary exploration of the contemporary university’s entanglement with the history of slavery and settler colonialism in the United States. Inspired by more than a hundred student-led protests during the Movement for Black Lives, contributors examine how campus rebellions—and university responses to them—expose the racialized inequities at the core of higher education. Plantation politics are embedded in the everyday workings of universities—in not only the physical structures and spaces of academic institutions, but in its recruitment and attainment strategies, hiring practices, curriculum, and notions of sociality, safety, and community. The book is comprised of three sections that highlight how white supremacy shapes campus communities and classrooms; how current diversity and inclusion initiatives perpetuate inequality; and how students, staff, and faculty practice resistance in the face of institutional and legislative repression. Each chapter interrogates a connection between the academy and the plantation, exploring how Black people and their labor are viewed as simultaneously essential and disruptive to university cultures and economies. The volume is an indispensable read for students, faculty, student affairs professionals, and administrators invested in learning more about how power operates within education and imagining emancipatory futures.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: ‘Carving Out a Humanity’: Campus Rebellions and the Legacy of Plantation Politics on College Campuses
Bianca C. Williams and Frank A. Tuitt
Part I: Capitalism and Colonial Vestiges of White Supremacy in Higher Education
1. Framing Plantation Politics: Allochronism’s Pull on Contemporary Formations of Higher Education
Dian D. Squire
2. Plantation Pedagogies in Contemporary Higher Education Classrooms: Instruments of the Slave Society and Manifestations of Plantation Politics
Saran Stewart
3. ‘Troubling the Waters’: Unpacking and (Re)Imagining the Historical and Contemporary Complexity of Historically Black College and University Cultural Politics
Steve D. Mobley Jr., Sunni L. Solomon II, A. C. Johnson, and Patrick Reynolds
4. Fugitive Slave Act(s): The Emergence of Black Studies as an Exemplar for Black Future(s) Insurrection
Wilson Kwamogi Okello
Part II: Institutional Rhetoric and the False Promises of ‘Diversity’ and ‘Inclusion’
5. Inclusion = Racial Violence? Time, Space, and the Afterlife of the Plantation
Armond Towns
6. Future Thinking and Freedom Making: Antidiversity as an Intervention to the Plantation Politics of Higher Education
Jesse Carr, Nicole Truesdell, Catherine M. Orr, and Lisa Anderson-Levy
7. The Contemporary Chief Diversity Officer and the Plantation Driver: The Reincarnation of a Diversity Management Position
Frank A. Tuitt
8. The Campus Underground Railroad: Strategies of Resistance, Care, and Courage within University Cultural Centers
Toby S. Jenkins, Rosalind Conerly, Liane I. Hypolite, and Lori D. Patton
Part III: Resistance and Repression: Campus Politics and Legislative Acts of Anti-Blackness
9. Resistance In and Out of the University: Student Activist Political Subjectivity and the Liberal Institution
Kristi Carey
10. Repurposing the Confederacy: Understanding Issues Surrounding the Removal and Contextualization of Lost Cause Iconography at Southern Colleges and Universities
R. Eric Platt, Holly A. Foster, and Lauren Yarnell Bradshaw
11. Codes of Silence: Campus and State Responses to Student Protest
Kevin J. Bazner and Andrea Button
12. ‘When Lions Have Historians’: Black Political Literacy in the Carceral University
Orisanmi Burton
Afterword: Against Higher Education: Instruments of Insurrection
D-L Stewart
About the Editors
Contributors
Index
About the author
Bianca C. Williams is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and author of
The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism.
Dian D. Squire is Assistant Professor of Counseling-Student Affairs at Northern Arizona University.
Frank A. Tuitt is Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer, and Professor of Education at the University of Connecticut and coeditor (with Chayla Haynes and Saran Stewart) of
Race, Equity, and the Learning Environment: The Global Relevance of Critical and Inclusive Pedagogies in Higher Education.
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