You Must Be a Basketball Player - Rethinking Integration in the University (Paperback)

Documenting a black professor's account of his own professional experience, this study describes what it feels like to be a nonwhite academic in one of the "big three" disciplines in the humanities--English, history, and philosophy. Challenging the notion that today's Canadian universities have successfully addressed the issues of diversity, this argument warns that if professors of color cannot see academia as a liberal bastion, it can only be even more forbidding for students of color. Demonstrating how integration policies are manipulated when it comes to hiring visible minorities in the university, this reference highlights aspects such as merit that are commonly used to deny employment. Positing that institutions should deliver on their stated policies instead of hiding behind formalities, this emboldened examination will surprise those inside and outside of the academic field.

General

Imprint:	Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	September 2009
First published:	September 2009
Authors:	Anthony Stewart
Dimensions:	23 x 15 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Unsewn / adhesive bound
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-1-55266-285-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General
LSN:	1-55266-285-3
Barcode:	9781552662854

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