A Commentary on the Whitening of the Public University: The Context for Diversifying Geography
This commentary raises a series of questions for geographical research in national, regional, and institutional contexts for diversifying geography. Decades of neoliberal political and economic reforms and the still-unfolding Great Recession are reshaping funding and assessment in geography.
These developments could have unintended and spatially varied effects on efforts to diversify geography. We explore geographies of uneven access to public education that shape the class and race profile of student bodies, outlining research and practice agendas that arise from our cautionary
tales about the contemporary context.
Keywords: blanqueo; neoliberal reforms; public universities; reformas neoliberales; universidades públicas; whitening
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Queen's University, 2: University of Washington, 3: Temple University,
Publication date: 03 April 2014
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