Full Description
The New White Nationalism in Politics and Higher Education analyzes a new form of white nationalism that seeks to recruit mainstream citizens to achieve its goals. This New White Nationalism sees higher education, which imparts fact-based knowledge and interrogates history, social structures, and power, often from antiracist and multicultural lenses, as a threat. Michael H. Gavin reveals the tactics of The New White Nationalism and provides a tool called The Nostalgia Spectrum to examine American racism. In the process, the author demonstrates that what many scholars are calling a crisis in higher education is really a crisis of political and social imagination. Reimagining a socially just nation and leveraging higher education institutions that provide low-cost, accessible education to minorities as the first choice for middle class America could have transformative effects on the nation itself.
Contents
Introduction: The Insurrection: The First Battle in a New War
Chapter 1: Nostalgia Matters
Chapter 2: The Cartography of the New White Nation
Chapter 3: Close the Borders: Constructing Higher Education as Liberal
Chapter 4: Rationalizing Innovation Vacuum
Chapter 5: Contain the Minorities: Policies to Ensure Isolation of Minorities
Chapter 6: Trust in the Age of Compliance
Chapter 7: The Attempted Coup, Black Lives Matter, and COVID-19
Conclusion: Context and for Examining Discourses of Higher Education in Relation to American and Racial Theories
