An underlying assumption undergirding institutions of higher education is that they serve as a means to upward socioeconomic mobility and, in turn, a way to address poverty that is tied to certain racialized/sexualized bodies. Although the education crisis is not an American or European problem in the geographic sense, but instead a global problem that plays itself out differentially across space and time, this volume focuses on the westernized university, in the US and abroad. It asks questions about what is westernized about the university, what its aims are, and how those who work in, through and outside these sites of knowledge productionwith local or global social movementscan participate in the slow, careful process of decolonizing the westernized university.Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Withoutprovides a sharper understanding of the crisis and the responses to the westernized university at multiple sites around the world.As an intervention in the philosophy of education discourse, which tends to assume the university is a neutral space, this collection will be of particular value to students and scholars working in philosophy of education, Latina/o philosophy, Africana philosophy, social epistemology, education, cultural studies, and ethnic studies, as well as to intellectual activists in the United States, south of the border, and around the world.

Ramón Grosfoguel is associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkley.Roberto D. Hernández isassistant professor of Chicana/o studies at San Diego State University.Ernesto Rosen Velásquez is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Dayton.

IntroductionErnesto Rosen VelásquezPART I: THE UNDERSIDE OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION1.The University at a CrossroadsBoaventura de Sousa SantosPART II: DECOLONIZING THE WESTERNIZED UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE, THE U.S. AND LATIN AMERICA2.About Them, But Without Them: Race and Ethnic Studies Relations in DutchUniversitiesKwame Nimako3. The Dilemmas of Ethnic Studies: In Between Liberal Multiculturalism, Identity Politics, Disciplinary Colonization, and Decolonial EpistemologiesRamón Grosfoguel4.The Crisis of the University in the Context of Neoapartheid: A View from Ethnic StudiesNelson Maldonado-Torres5.Dropouts as Delinkers from the Modern/Colonial World SystemErnesto Rosen Velásquez6.Damnés Realities and Ontological Disobedience: Notes on the Coloniality of Reality in Higher Education in the Bolivian Andes and BeyondAnders Burman7.Delinking from Western Epistemology: En Route from University to PluriversityviaInterculturalityRobert Aman8.Decolonizing Humanities: The Presence of the Humanitas and the Absence of theAnthroposTendayi SitholePART III: DECOLONIZING PEDAGOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS9.Philosopher-Teachers and That Little Thing Called Hasty DecolonizationNassim Noroozi10.Decolonizing Human Rights: Implications for Human Rights Pedagogy, Scholarshipand Advocacy in Westernized Universities and SchoolsCamilo Pérez-BustilloPART IV: ARIZONA BAN ON MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AND 43 DISAPPEARED STUDENTS11.Racial Interpellation, Civic Education and Anti-Latina/o RacismAndrea J. Pitts12.Ayotzinapa: An Attack on Latin American PhilosophyAmy Reed-Sandoval13.Adressing Ayotzinapa: Using Dussels Analectic Method for Establishingan Ethical Framework for Complex Social MovementsLuis Rubén Díaz Cepeda