Remember 9-11! White belligerency in the academy. From: The American Indian Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Valandra, Edward C. | COPYRIGHT 2003 University of Nebraska Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Here at our spring faculty conference we are being asked to engage in a discourse about controversial issues of teaching in a post 9-11 climate. (1) For many nonwhites associated with the academy, a crucial issue of course is white belligerence. As I have defined it, belligerence involves both a normative understanding in international relations whereby an aggressor state is engaged in some form or act of hostility (for example, war, declared or otherwise) and an individual persona...