Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

Publication Title

Foundation

Volume

54

Issue

151

Pages

72-86

Abstract

A marginalized young person, often of a different physiognomy from those wielding power, sees the 'ivory tower' in her universe as a path to the learning, respect, power, and agency not available to her in her home environs. At their educational institutions, while their Blackness is not the basis for their outsider status, the Othering they experience mirrors that experienced by Black students at predominantly white universities in the real world. Theorizing the Colonial Role of Educational Institutions Following Thomas Macaulay's notorious' Minute on Education'(1835), educational systems have played a vital role in reaffirming the balance of power between the empire and its dominions. For the institution to function, it requires individuals to take up their assigned places in those already established relationships, not through a system of elaborate rules but through each individual's recognition of and identification with their role.

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Original Publication Citation

Zornow, M. (2025). Full ride to college, but at what cost?: Colonial subjects at imperial educational institutions in Binti and the fifth season. Foundation, 54(151), 72-86. 

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