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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower

How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower

By: Davarian L. Baldwin
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Across America, universities have become big businesses - and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow.

Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages.

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes listeners from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power - and who is made vulnerable.

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.

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©2021 Davarian L. Baldwin (P)2021 Bold Type Books
Education Politics & Government Public Policy Sociology Chicago Social justice

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Informative and insightful narratives about higher education. The abuse and exploitation of urban areas and the lack of access for people of color. Great work! All educators should be aware of the underlying issues facing academic institutions at all levels

Outstanding Book

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evidence was anecdotal and the arguments presumed bad intentions on behalf of universities. It didn’t seem like there was any engagement with the idea of education being a good in of itself.

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