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"Animated by social movements such as #RhodesMustFall and #BlackLivesMatter,
universities today have entered a period of critical self-reflection on their
histories.
The renaming of campus buildings, removal of statues and re-branding of whole
universities are all evidence of this trend towards uncovering higher
education’s colonial legacies.
Yet this emphasis on campus iconography, or even on the campus itself, skirts a
deeper history of universities and empire.
Most public universities founded in the 19th century — especially in what is
now Canada, the United States and Aotearoa New Zealand, but also in South
Africa and Australia — were large-scale landowners."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
