Dylan Rodríguez on Immigration

This gathering of the Sawyer Seminar examines the fragility of “academic freedom” in higher education institutions, highlighting how political repression, policing and threats of deportation and criminalization undermine the larger mission of the university as the primary place for advancing knowledge. By focusing on historical struggles built through the collective activity of Black study, the seminar offers a framework for vulnerable scholars seeking to build resilient, self-determined intellectual communities.

Dylan Rodríguez is distinguished professor in the Department of Black Study and the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

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Convened by the WashU Department of African and African American Studies and the Center for the Humanities, this Sawyer Seminar explores how Black studies can sustain academic freedom and help reimagine democratic higher education. Through a yearlong series of conversations featuring leading scholars and public intellectuals, the seminar brings together faculty, students and community partners to examine how Black studies offers vital perspectives on power, inequality and democracy while shaping the future of higher education.

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