The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent

Contents

Contents Introduction The Imperial University: Race, War, and the Nation-State 1 Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira I. Imperial Cartographies 1. New Empire, Same Old University? Education in the American Tropics after 1898 53 Victor Bascara 2. Militarizing Education: The Intelligence Community’s Spy Camps 79 Roberto J. González 3. Challenging Complicity: The Neoliberal University and the Prison-Industrial Complex 99 Julia C. Oparah II. Academic Containment 4. Neoliberalism, Militarization, and the Price of Dissent: Policing Protest at the University of California 125 Farah Godrej 5. Faculty Governance at the University of Southern California 145 Laura Pulido 6. The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement and Violations of Academic Freedom at Wayne State University 169 Thomas Abowd 7. Decolonizing Chicano Studies in the Shadows of the University’s “Heteropatriracial” Order 187 Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo III. Manifest Knowledges 8. Normatizing State Power: Uncritical Ethical Praxis and Zionism 217 Steven Salaita 9. Nobody Mean More: Black Feminist Pedagogy and Solidarity 237 Alexis Pauline Gumbs 10. Teaching outside Liberal-Imperial Discourse: A Critical Dialogue about Antiracist Feminisms 261 Sylvanna Falcón, Sharmila Lodhia, Molly Talcott, and Dana Collins 11. Citation and Censure: Pinkwashing and the Sexual Politics of Talking about Israel 281 Jasbir Puar IV. Heresies and Freedoms 12. Within and Against the Imperial University: Reflections on Crossing the Line 301 Nicholas De Genova 13. Teaching by Candlelight 329 Vijay Prashad 14. UCOP versus R. Dominguez: The FBI Interview. A One-Act Play à la Jean Genet 343 Ricardo Dominguez Acknowledgments 355 Contributors 357 Index 361 ...