Indigenous Vanguards: Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism

by Ben Conisbee Baer

Anticolonial struggles of the interwar epoch were haunted by the question of how to construct an educational practice for all future citizens of postcolonial states. In what ways, vanguard intellectuals asked, would citizens from diverse subaltern situations be equally enabled to participate in a nonimperial society and world? In circumstances of cultural and social crisis imposed by colonialism, these vanguards sought to refashion modern structures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023116372X
• ISBN13: 9780231163729
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"