Imperial University

Piya Chatterjee is Backstrand Chair and professor of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Scripps College. She is the author of A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation and coeditor of States of Trauma: Gender and Violence in South Asia.Sunaina Maira is professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City and Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11.

• ContentsIntroduction. The Imperial University: Race, War, and the Nation-StatePiya Chatterjee and Sunaina MairaI. Imperial Cartographies1. New Empire, Same University? Education in the American Tropics after 1898Victor Bascara2. Militarizing Education: The Intelligence Community’s Spy CampsRoberto J. GonzÁlez3. Challenging Complicity: The Neoliberal University and the Prison-Industrial ComplexJulia C. OparahII. Academic Containment4. Neoliberalism, Militarization, and the Price of Dissent: Policing Protest at the University of CaliforniaFarah Godrej5. Faculty Governance at the University of Southern CaliforniaLaura Pulido6. The BDS Movement and Violations of Academic Freedom at Wayne State UniversityThomas Abowd7. Decolonizing Chicano Studies in the Shadows of the University’s “Heteropatriracial” OrderAna Clarissa Rojas DurazoIII. Manifest Knowledges8. Normatizing State Power: Uncritical Ethical Praxis and ZionismSteven Salaita9. Nobody Mean More: Black Feminist Pedagogy and SolidarityAlexis Pauline Gumbs10. Teaching outside Liberal-Imperial Discourse: A Critical Dialogue about Antiracist FeminismsSylvanna FalcÓn, Sharmila Lodhia, Molly Talcott, and Dana Collins11. Citation and Censure: Pinkwashing and the Sexual Politics of Talking about IsraelJasbir PuarIV. Heresies and Freedoms12. Within and Against the Imperial University: Reflections on Crossing the LineNicholas De Genova13. Teaching by CandlelightVijay Prashad14. UCOP versus R. Dominguez -The FBI Interview: A One-Act Play Á la Jean GenetRicardo DominguezAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

"The public space of higher education is under siege. The Imperial University interrogates in brilliant detail the nature of such attacks and the hidden structures of power and politics that define them. But it does more in providing a passionate call to rethink higher education part of a future in which learning is linked to social change. A crucial book for anyone who imagines the university as both an essential public sphere and an index of what a democracy should be." -Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University "Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira’s The Imperial University charts the many ways that institutions of higher education fail to meet the needs of students and the teachers who instruct them. It’s a wonderful, stimulating and anger-inducing book."-Truthout"No book indexes the political brutalism that often hounds academic settings these days so intimately and nerve-rackingly as this one. This is, far and away, the most affecting, comprehensive, and visionary collection of essays published to date on the politics of contemporary higher education."-Academe"Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira provide an invaluable collection of scholarship on the transformation of the University into an apparatus of empire and the U.S. War on Terror."-American Studies Journal"A thoughtfully and often passionately crafted volume that problematized issues of academic-militaristic collusion, American exceptionalism, academic freedom, and in many cases, expulsion from the ivory tower."-Journal for Peace and Justice Studies"A provocative interrogation."-Journal of American History"Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira take great care to bring the battles on university campuses home to readers with great immediacy and in their full connection to warfare, militarism, racism, the politics of nationalism, and neoliberal versions of imperial violence."-American Quarterly