Coloniality and Racial (in)Justice in the University

Sunera Thobani is a professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.

• ForewordBeverly Bain and Min Sook LeeIntroduction: Present Pasts: The Anxieties of PowerSunera Thobani1 Don’t Cry, Fight! vs. Deference to the Corporate State: Abrogation of Indigenous Rights and Title, Civil Rights, and Social and Environmental Justice at the Imperialist Universityannie ross2 The State Is a Man: Theresa Spence, Loretta Saunders, and the Gender of Settler Sovereignty. Audra Simpson3 Colonizing Critical Race Studies/Scholars: Counting for Nothing?. Sunera Thobani4 "Our Canadian Culture Has Been Squeamish about Gathering Race-Based Statistics": The Circulation of Discourses of Race and Whiteness among Canadian Universities, Newspapers, and Alt-Right Groups. Enakshi Dua5 Access Denied: Safe/guarding the University as White Property. Delia D. Douglas6 Invisibility, Marginalization, Injustice, Dehumanization: Precariousness in the Academy. Sarika Bose7 Refusing Diversity in the Militarized Settler Academy. Carol W.N. Fadda and Dana M. Olwan8 How Canadian Universities Fail Black Non-Binary Students. Cicely-Belle Blain9 Interrogating White Supremacy in Academia: Creating Alternative Spaces for Racialized Students’ Scholarship and Well-Being. Benita Bunjun10 Dreaming Big in Small Spaces: Prefiguring Change in the Racial University. Jin HaritawornContributors