Within the context of education, this means that the appearance of difference (think here of university and college brochures that are spattered with faces of color) can exist alongside the power of whiteness and its control over what counts as knowledge or over whose history matters. If the U.S. and its universities are as liberal as they would like the rest of the world to think, then why, after two-and-a-half centuries, are they struggling to include diversity without the assistance of a program? I think of the protests that have been sparked in response to the clampdown on immigrants or the reverberating voices of Black Lives Matter, a movement which encouraged young people in South Africa to call out racism in their schools on social media, leading to an outpouring of rage against the systemic racism within the some of the country’s most elite schools.
Author: George Yancy
Published at: 2025-09-06 22:09:15
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