Between Race and Reason

"In this highly articulate and cogently argued study, Susan Searls Giroux shows how the politics of higher education, since the Civil Rights Movement victories of the 1960s, have re-fashioned the university into something far removed from the ideal of a haven for independent thought and research."—Ruth Tait, Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal

"This thought-provoking work addresses the complex negotiation of race and politics in the contemporary academy, particularly the anti-intellectualism that has emerged not only in right-wing attacks on the university but also from the academy itself. Giroux takes on the contradictions and folly of academic anti-intellectualism in ironic and dialectical fashion, for implicit in her critique is an affirmation of the value of intellectual work. Between Race and Reason brings to the fore a series of repressed terms in the conjunction of race and politics—racial-politics, politics-of-race, and many more—and shows that the effort to banish politics from universities has made them more political than ever, provocatively observing that 'political correctness' has mutated into 'patriotic correctness.'"—Lewis Ricardo Gordon, Temple University

"Race is changing in our midst and it is crucial that we understand its shifting nature, and the implications for the future of the US as a racialized nation state. A response is in order and Between Race and Reason provides it. We speak of legal citizenship, cultural citizenship, and now, with the advent of this book, we can add intellectual citizenship."—Zeus Leonardo, University of California, Berkeley