DOI
10.21768/ejopa.v5i2.10
Abstract
Fall 2015 marked the convergence of Black student activism to address racial issues across college campuses with the author’s fifth year as a doctoral student at Brandeis University. In this article, the author reflects upon her personal experiences with student activism at Brandeis in general and specifically with Black student activism on campus that fall. She focuses on the events immediately surrounding the 12-day occupation of the administration office by a group that came to be known as #FordHall2015. From her vantage as a critical race and social movement scholar, a Black woman, and a doctoral student, she identifies structural patterns in resistance and counter resistance around racially centered student activism. She examines how institutional amnesia and narrative framing are employed strategically to protect institutional power and interests, and then presents potential approaches to advancing racial justice changes despite these strategies.
Recommended Citation
Liu, Callie Watkins
(2016)
"Student Activism, Institutional Amnesia, and Narrative (Re)Construction:
Lessons from Brandeis University’s #FordHall2015 Protests,"
eJournal of Public Affairs: Vol. 5:
Iss.
2, Article 10.
DOI: 10.21768/ejopa.v5i2.10
Available at:
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/ejopa/vol5/iss2/10
