José Manuel Santillana Blanco Archives

Seditious Acts: Being in, But Not of, the Neoliberal University

José Manuel Santillana Blanco, Kidiocus King-Carroll, Naimah Zulmadelle Pétigny, and Kong Pheng Pha

This introduction to the volume by the editors trace the racial history of U.S. higher education and the students of color led movements that have led to the current moment of protests against the neoliberal university.

Building Relations, Critical University Studies and Student Activism: A Conversation with Roderick A. Ferguson

Kong Pheng Pha & José Manuel Santillana Blanco, with Roderick A. Ferguson

Kong Pheng Pha and José Manuel Santillana Blanco speak to Roderick A. Ferguson about the backlash against critical race and ethnic studies in higher education and emergent modes of student resistance.

Unruly Subjects: On Student Activism, the Neoliberal University, and Infiltration

José Manuel Santillana Blanco

This essay explores the (im)possibilities that students of color and indigenous students have in resisting the Neoliberal University that operates as an institution of power and knowledge production predicated on white supremacy, settler colonialism, and global capitalism.