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- Title
Racial Justice Beyond Credentials: The Radical Politic of a Black College Dropout.
- Authors
Mustaffa, Jalil Bishop
- Abstract
The scholarly paper explores how racial justice and college credentials have become conflated despite the higher education system being a site of anti-Blackness. The argument is advanced through analyzing critiques of higher education—stratification, lack of support, un(der)employment, and consumerism—on Kanye West's first album The College Dropout. I argue that a focus on college dropouts or the uncredentialed allows for a more evidence-based analysis of how higher education fails to be an equalizer for poor Black urban communities and provides lessons for how to imagine a radical education praxis not based on who has a degree but on human needs and Blackness as valuable.
- Subjects
WEST, Kanye, 1977-; COLLEGE dropouts; SOCIAL justice; HISTORICALLY Black colleges &; universities; HIGHER education; BLACK people
- Publication
Urban Review, 2022, Vol 54, Issue 2, p318
- ISSN
0042-0972
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11256-021-00612-3