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US Universities Have Turned Into Rapacious Capitalist Machines
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
14 Jun 2021
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Margaret Kimberley · US Universities Have Turned Into Rapacious Capitalist Machines

American higher education is a relentless gentrifyer that spreads police terror and low wages, said Davarian Baldwin, professor of American Studies and founding director of the Smart Cities Lab at Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut. “These Black and brown neighborhoods were targeted for displacement,” said Baldwin, author of the book “In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower.

Gentrifying Universities

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