Marinating over the Anti-Ebony Tower: An Academic ‘Grammar Book’

Digital Archive Review: CUNY Digital History Archive

“…Some of the most thought-provoking and actionoriented studies have come from social science researchers turning their gaze inward to study their workplaces, that is, colleges and universities. These studies have shed light on student mobilizations and their aftermaths (Ferguson 2012;Okechukwu 2019); universities' ties to slavery, settler colonialism, and U.S. imperialism (Chatterjee and Maira 2014;Grande 2018;la paperson 2017;Wilder 2013); the growing prerogatives of campus police forces and the anti-Black campus climate (Mahadeo 2019;Pagan et al 2020;Suriel et al 2024); and the forced displacement of residents who live in "the shadow of the ivory tower" (Baldwin 2021;Bradley 2012). In academic spaces, students and precarious faculty have called attention to the harms the university has inflicted on racialized communities, and some have begun plotting its collective takeover (Abolitionist University Studies 2023; Boggs et al n.d.;Reed 2021).…”

“…Some of the most thought-provoking and action-oriented studies have come from social science researchers turning their gaze inward to study their workplaces, that is, colleges and universities. These studies have shed light on student mobilizations and their aftermaths (Ferguson 2012; Okechukwu 2019); universities’ ties to slavery, settler colonialism, and U.S. imperialism (Chatterjee and Maira 2014; Grande 2018; la paperson 2017; Wilder 2013); the growing prerogatives of campus police forces and the anti-Black campus climate (Mahadeo 2019; Pagan et al. 2020; Suriel et al.…”