Speaking out against racism in the university space / Shirin Housee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword, by Farzana Shain -- Introduction: Hear them out! -- Part 1. -- 1. Higher education and the race debate -- 2. Outsiders within -- 3. Intersectionality - the impact of race and gender on students' lives -- 4. Is it cos of my colour? -- 5. Being and belonging -- Part 2. -- 6. Battlefields of knowing - racism from the inside -- 7. Sounding out the silences -- 8. Now you know about racism, what are you going to do about it? -- 9. What is the point of building antiracism?

"This book yields new and valuable insights into race and racism in higher education institutions. The powerful combination of accounts by minoritized students of their experiences and views, the frame of analysis based on Critical Race Theory, and the personal affinity and empathy of the author with her students, reveal the institutionalized structures, bigoted opinions and insidious discrimination that prevail. Yet universities should be challenging such racism, particularly when it is rising and spreading. The book shows how they can examine their staff and student recruitment, investigate their teaching methods and policies, and decolonize their curricula. How we listen to the student voice, and the spaces the university provides for minoritized students to speak freely, are the first steps to making institutions of higher education truly inclusive - the domain of social justice."--Publisher's website.