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“Courageous and peerless, accessible and engaging, Stewart’s critique of the unseemly whiteness of the academy is a tour de force. His account of white academic privilege, homogeneity, cowardice, a...
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“Courageous and peerless, accessible and engaging, Stewart’s critique of the unseemly whiteness of the academy is a tour de force. His account of white academic privilege, homogeneity, cowardice, and hypocrisy with respect to matters of race and integration proceeds with keen insight and telling intellectual rigor. His analysis of white academia’s ‘theoretical’ evisceration of race and its practical and discursive actualities is nothing short of brilliant. The indictment of the monolithic and self-satisfied white demographic of academic departments of history, English, and philosophy (“the big three”) is wonderfully timely. Any scholar - especially any un-self-conscious white or black scholar - who fails to read Stewart’s work loses. This critique is a triumph of public sphere activism … straight out of Canada!” – Dr. Houston A. Baker, Jr., Distinguished University Professor, Department of English, Vanderbilt University. Author of Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era

Listen to Anthony Stewart talk about his book with Shelagh Rogers on CBC’s The Next Chapter http://www.cbc.ca/thenextchapter/

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Price: $22.00
Pages: 128
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Publication Date: 01 September 2009
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781552662854
Format: Paperback
BISACs: EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination
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Anthony Stewart is an associate professor in the English department at Dalhousie University. He is the author of George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

: Preface
: Introduction: Reflections of a Tenured Black Sheep, or, How the University Looks to Me
: Part I: The Myth of Merit
: The Mythical Meritocracy, or, Is the Best Candidate Ever Simply the Best?
: Ignoring the Pool
: Lessons the University Should Not Be Teaching
: Part II: Beyond the Myth of Merit
: The Problem of Being and Only
: The Problem of Toronto
: Majoritarianism, Critical Mass and Institutional Literacy
: Conclusion: If the Profession Looks Like this to Me …