A Third University Is Possible

A Third University Is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian boarding schools, Black education, and missionary schools in Kenya; and between the Department of Homeland Security and the University of California.

Central to la paperson's discussion is the "scyborg," a decolonising agent of technological subversion. Drawing parallels to Third Cinema and Black filmmaking assemblages, A Third University Is Possible ultimately presents new ways of using language to develop a framework for hotwiring university "machines" to the practical work of decolonisation.

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