The Scandal of Cal Audiobook Libro.fm

The University of California Berkeleywidely known as Calis admired worldwide as a bastion of innovation and a hub for progressive thought Far less known are the universitys roots in plunder warfare and the promotion of white supremacy As Tony Platt shows in The Scandal of Cal these original sins sit at the center of UC Berkeleys history Platt looks unflinchingly at the universitys desecration of graves and largescale hoarding of Indigenous remains He tracks its role in developing the racist pseudoscience of eugenics in the early twentieth century He sheds light on the schools complicity with the militaryindustrial complex and its incubation of unprecedented violence through the Manhattan Project And he underscores its deliberate and continued evasions about its own wrongdoings which echo in the institutions decisionmaking up to the present day This book above all illuminates Cals culpability in some of the cruelest chapters of US history and sounds a clarion call for the university to undertake a thorough and earnest reckoning with its past It is a mustlisten for Cal alumni students faculty and staff and for anyone concerned with the impact of higher education in the United States and beyond