Uncommon Schools : The Global Rise of Postsecondary Institutions for Indigenous Peoples

Postsecondary institutions for indigenous peoples emerged in the late 1960s, just as other special purpose colleges based on gender or race began to close. What accounts for the emergence of these distinctive institutions? Though indigenous students are among the least populous, the poorest, and the most educationally disadvantaged in the world, they differ from most other racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic minorities by virtue of their exceptional claims to sovereignty under international and domestic law. __Uncommon Schools__ explores the emergence of postsecondary institutions for indigenous peoples worldwide, with a focus on developments in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Providing the opportunity to examine larger social, political, and legal processes, it traces the incorporation of indigenous peoples into nation-states, the rise of a global indigenous rights movement, and the "massification" of postsecondary education while investigating the variety of ways these culturally relevant colleges differ from each other and from other postsecondary institutions. Uncommon Schools explores the emergence of postsecondary institutions for indigenous peoples worldwide, with a focus on developments in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Providing the opportunity to examine larger social, political, and legal processes, it traces the incorporation of indigenous peoples into nation-states, the rise of a global indigenous rights movement, and the 'massification' of postsecondary education while investigating the variety of ways these culturally relevant colleges differ from each other and from other postsecondary institutions."--Publisher description World polity transformations and the status of indigenous peoples Indigenous education in global and historical perspective Indigenous-state relations in comparative perspective The emergence of indigenous postsecondary institutions Minority-serving colleges in the United States Ethnocentric curricula and the politics of difference Conclusion : summary, challenges, and the future of indigenous postsecondary institutions.