Campus Protests Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/campus-protests/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:10:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Campus Protests Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/campus-protests/ 32 32 How campus protests exposed the flaws in higher education diversity initiatives https://www.publicbooks.org/how-campus-protests-exposed-the-flaws-in-higher-education-diversity-initiatives/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:04:16 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57722 Universities across the US pay lip service to diversity, equity and inclusion, while suppressing calls for Palestinian liberation.

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]]> What Is a “Student” Politics? https://www.publicbooks.org/what-is-a-student-politics/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:03:13 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57731 To risk enfranchisement, suffer its penalties, apologetically—on behalf of a political sympathy with others—is revolutionary. This is the kind of action to which humanist knowledge must be bound.

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]]> Leaving a Mark https://www.publicbooks.org/leaving-a-mark/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:02:53 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57873 I found myself constantly asking other participants their thoughts and reflections, to the point where I simply decided to sit down and record these conversations as a sort of informal oral history project.

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]]> Being Columbia https://www.publicbooks.org/being-columbia/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:01:22 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57460 This article was born as critique, but has grown into an elaboration of emotion, reflection, and reaction.

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]]> Reckoning With Our Collective Failure https://www.publicbooks.org/reckoning-with-our-collective-failure/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:00:02 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57922 We were collectively failing in our mission to help students become informed, engaged citizens.

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]]> Liberation, Education https://www.publicbooks.org/liberation-education/ Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:04:08 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57510 In April 2024, Sofia Rivera captured stark close-ups of scenes from the Columbia University campus, from barricaded buildings to clipped versions of the campus’s famous statues, obscured in favor of the images of protest surrounding them.

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]]> The Fire This Time https://www.publicbooks.org/the-fire-this-time/ Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:02:30 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57528 I come to you with the same tears of rage, the same feelings of intense internal pain, and the same traumas that you all carry daily.

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]]> The class goes on a nature walk https://www.publicbooks.org/the-class-goes-on-a-nature-walk/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:05:26 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57498 This country deserves no green like this.

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]]> Prayers for Palestine https://www.publicbooks.org/prayers-for-palestine/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:04:13 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57493 But living is her insistence / So long live the resistance.

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]]> Lyrics of the Student Intifada https://www.publicbooks.org/lyrics-of-the-student-intifada/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:03:21 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57488 There is an elegy that echoes from the universities of Gaza to the universities of the world.

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