Call for Chapter Proposals
©2014 Dr. Virginia Stead, Editor
Volume 6
RIP Jim Crow: Fighting Racism through Higher Education Policy, Curriculum, and Cultural Interventions
INTERNATIONAL BOOK SERIES
Equity in Higher
Education Theory, Policy, and Praxis
Dr.
Virginia Stead, Series Editor
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing,
Inc. (New York)
Managing Director: Christopher S.
Myers
General Editor: Virginia Stead, H.B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed., Ed.D.
Inquiries: virginia.stead@alum.utoronto.ca
ISSN: 2330-4502
Proposal Deadline: December 15, 2014. Proposals will be considered on a
first come basis.
Proposal Format: 400 words, at least three references from the
literature, author name, affiliation, and contact information; .doc or .docx
attachments in Times New Roman 12, black font, 1” margins, double spaced
Chapter Deadline: January
30, 2015. Early submissions are always welcome.
Book Overview
This book
is a response to the sickening accumulation of racially-inspired, systemically sanctioned
deaths, and to a belief in the power of higher education to create a kinder
society. We cringe at the two unthinkable grand jury decisions in favor of
White police officers who killed unarmed Black youths Eric Garner in New York,
and Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. This book will help disintegrate the social
alexithymia that pervades our culture and shows how indifferent we are to the
suffering of others. Such group desensitization, sustained by racism, is a vestige
of colonialism that thrives behind the illusion of democracy.
Specifically,
the book will critically examine how higher
education infrastructure and agency typically perpetuate racism, as well as
how they might be recalibrated to become antiracist leviathans. The book will
have three sections: (1) Antiracist Theory and Policy will focus on visible and
invisible ways of conceptualizing racism, and propose countervailing antiracist
rationales. (2) Antiracist Administration, Curriculum, and Pedagogy will
identify racist management styles, instructional materials, and teaching
methods, and recommend antiracist replacements. (3) Antiracist Cultural
Interventions will highlight everyday racist behaviors such as ignoring people,
interrupting, and elevator shunning, and feature examples of how to challenge
these visible and invisible actions.
Chapter
proposals will be evaluated according to their proscriptive descriptions of racism in higher education and their prescriptive recommendations for antiracist
alternatives. Together we can build enough momentum to see Jim Crow lay
silent and still in his grave.
I look forward
to reading your proposal. Thank you in advance for your interest in this book.
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