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No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education
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Leigh Patel
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes LEIGH PATEL—professor of educational foundations, organizations, and policy at the University of Pittsburgh—for a discussion of her latest book, No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education. She will be joined in conversation by JARVIS R. GIVENS, the acclaimed author of Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching.
Using campus social justice movements as an entry point, Leigh Patel shows how the struggles in higher education often directly challenged the tension between narratives of education as a pathway to improvement and the structural reality of settler colonialism that creates and protects wealth for a select few.
Through original research and interviews with activists and organizers from Black Lives Matter, the Black Panther party, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Combahee River Collective, and the Young Lords, Patel argues that the struggle on campuses reflect a starting point for higher education to confront settler strategies. She reveals how blurring the histories of slavery and Indigenous removal only traps us in history and perpetuates race, class, and gender inequalities. By acknowledging and challenging settler colonialism, Patel outlines the importance of understanding the relationship between the struggle and study and how this understanding is vital for societal improvement.
