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Whiteness, Racial Trauma, and the University
- Harshad Keval - Edinburgh Napier University , UK
January 2025 | 120 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
In this book Harshad Keval offers an intensely personal testimony of racial trauma within the academy. Proposing the theoretical model of “white narcissistic structures” the author traces the paradox of academic institutions simultaneously embracing a progressive and neo-liberal “cos-play” while continuing to generate and maintain racial trauma.
Chapter 1: What is ‘race’ in this moment?
Chapter 2: Universities as Racial Regimes
Chapter 3: ‘White Narcissus’
Chapter 4: Winner and Losers: How White Narcissus frames failure and success
Chapter 5: Decolonising and anti-racism: Whiteness and the ‘Cosplay’ of racial justice
Chapter 6: Black Absence, White Noise
Chapter 7: White Narcissus and the death of curiosity…or Where Are You from…Really?
