Building the Anti-Racist University

Shirley Anne Tate is Honorary Professor, Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. Her area of research is Black diaspora studies broadly. Her work focuses on the intersections of ‘race’ and gender, and her research interests are institutional racism, the body, affect, ‘mixed race’, beauty, ‘race’ performativity and Caribbean decolonial studies.Paul Bagguley is Reader in Sociology in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, UK. His main interests are in the sociology of social movements, racism and ethnicity. In the field of racism and ethnicity studies he has worked on the 2001 riots, South Asian women and higher education, the impacts of the 7/7 London bombings on different ethnic and religious groups in West Yorkshire and the cosmopolitanism of traditional British retail markets. More broadly his research interests and publications have encompassed economic sociology, urban studies and social theory.

• Introduction – Building the anti-racist university: next steps 1. Race, racialization and Indigeneity in Canadian universities 2. What style of leadership is best suited to direct organizational change to fuel institutional diversity in higher education? 3. Building the Anti-racist University, action and new agendas 4. Addressing dualisms in student perceptions of a historically white and black university in South Africa 5. Higher education, de-centred subjectivities and the emergence of a pedagogical self among Black and Muslim students 6. Affirmative action in Brazil and building an anti-racist university 7. The challenge of creating a more diverse economics: lessons from the UCR minority pipeline project 8. Dealing with difficult conversations: anti-racism in youth & community work training 9. From Liverpool to New York City: behind the veil of a Black British male scholar inside higher Education