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Introduction to Section Two: Transgressions

Edén Torres

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This introduction to section two—Transgressions—reflects on what has changed and what has remained the same in the neoliberal university, especially for students of color, over the past several decades and shows how the essays in this section contend with these histories and politics.

Moving Toward Transitional Pedagogies: The Second Sight of Graduate Students of Color in the Neoliberal University

Ezekiel Joubert III

This essay proposes transitional pedagogy as a methodology for scholars of color in neoliberal academia.

Toward a Marginal Understanding of Object Being in the Neoliberal University

Emily Mitamura

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This piece offers a series of joined meditations on violences of the neoliberal university through conceptions of object-being, romance, imagination, and newness.

A Cold Place: Notes on Antiblackness and the Neoliberal University

Kidiocus King-Carroll

A set of notes or jottings that are autobiographical, analytical, historical, and deliberately incomplete, but articulate King-Carroll’s understanding of the University and the world that surrounds it as an antiblack, neoliberal space that Black graduate students must exist in a fugitive relationship to.

Introduction to Section Three: Insurgencies

Rose M. Brewer

This introduction to section three—Insurgencies—locates the essays in this section within the rich history of the Civil Rights Movement, emergence of Black Studies, and students of color-led radical struggles against capitalism, racism, and neoliberalism in higher education.

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

José Manuel Santillana Blanco

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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.

Razing the Anti-Ebony Tower: An Academic ‘Grammar Book’

Rahsaan Mahadeo

This essay rejects the notion that for negatively-racialized students learning, laboring, and living in the anti-ebony tower is a privilege.

Within and Without the Settler University: Reflections on Decolonization, Spirituality and Research as Ceremony

Marcelo Garzo Montalvo

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This essay asks us to consider how the neoliberal university is always already a settler university and the ways in which indigenous ways of knowing can help us we reimagine education as a process of unlearning settler modernity.