Concerning Rigor: On Brownness and Disrupting the Neoliberal University

• In Event: Genealogies of Terror: Revisiting Violent Narratives and Vestiges of Disposability

Abstract

From reformatory schools to institutions of higher education, students of color have served different purposes, none of which have been fully invested in the joy, self-determination and critical education of Brown and Black students. Using comparative analysis, autoethnography and counter story-telling, I will examine 1. The different ways graduate students of color have been violently diminished and racialized within the neoliberal university 2. How all factions of the university replicate and maintain elitist and oppressive power structures under the gaze of diversity, inclusion and rigor as well as 4.Explore the ways that graduate students of color disrupt these power structures.

Presenter

• José Manuel Santillana, University of Minnesota