Between Race and Reason: Violence, Intellectual Responsibility, and the University to Come

Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the very heart of thinking about higher education in the post-civil rights era. Although the designation "post-civil rights" signifies a colorblind or race transcendent triumphalism in national political discourse, Giroux argues that our present is shaped by persistent, more subtle, but no less destructive "raceless" racism at home and permanent civilizational war abroad.

A primary battleground in these struggles is...