Ward Churchill examines how academia is locked firmly into a paradigm of Eurocentrism, not only in terms of its focus, but also in its discernible heritage, methodologies, and conceptual structure.
The global reach of Western style education is astounding in its conformity to the White Studies discourse, testimony in itself of what passes for higher education in most places on the planet.
White studies can be seen as a way to compress, sift and sort the knowledge traditions of the world according to a narrow set of intellectual assumptions about how the world works, those of the Western rationalist, materialist and modernist outlook.
Churchill's work is a good start at helping teachers and students alike to move from their present status as good subjects toward a temporary station of being bad subjects by questioning and subverting the system from within.
