Review: The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley, by Tony Platt

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Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley, by Tony Platt Tony Platt. The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Press, 2023. 320 pp. Hardcover $30.00. Kendall Lovely Kendall Lovely KENDALL LOVELY (Diné) is a PhD candidate in history at UC Santa Barbara. She also holds an MA in museum studies from the University of New Mexico, an MA in comparative humanities from Brandeis University, and a BA in comparative literature and anthropology from the University of New Mexico. A scholar of the history of New Mexico, the Southwest more broadly, and occasionally classical receptions, her dissertation research examines intersecting ideas on race and reproduction within narratives of ancient origins, ancestries, and heritage for Native Americans in museum anthropology. This work also serves as a basis for her emerging curatorial praxis as a public historian. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (4): 126–129. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.126 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kendall Lovely; Review: The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley, by Tony Platt. California History 1 November 2023; 100 (4): 126–129. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.126 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search Tony Platt’s The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley dives into the deep and multifaceted ties that the University of California, Berkeley, also known as “Cal,” maintains with Indigenous dispossession. Having previously discussed California’s history of plundering Native graves in his 2011 book Grave Matters, Platt now revisits this topic with his home institution, UC Berkeley, in mind. The book is both institutionally centered history and a call to action to make right the ongoing investment of UC Berkeley in its violent past. The book has a most urgent appeal to UC Berkeley–affiliated students, staff, faculty, and alumni, but also adds to broader understanding of the institutionalized stakes of colonialism across higher education and museum anthropology and to publics in California and the United States in general. Acting as a narrowed case study, with the interests of truth and reconciliation—or reckoning—Platt’s indictment of... You do not currently have access to this content.