Across America, Universities have become big businesses--and our Cities their company towns.
But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our Cities and our universities..
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be.
Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power--and who is made vulnerable.
Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students\' needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L.
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between Universities and our cities.
They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages.
They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby.
But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students.
They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations.
Urban Universities play an outsized role in America\'s cities.
But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow.
Across America, Universities have become big businesses--and our Cities their company towns
