Dylan Rodríguez on Immigration

Dylan Rodríguez deliberates on the precarious position of immigrant faculty and graduate students within higher education, highlighting the ways threats of deportation and uncertain immigration statuses undermine academic freedom as well as the larger mission of the university as the primary place for advancing knowledge. By focusing on the historical struggles for equity central to Black studies, the lecture offers frameworks for supporting vulnerable scholars and fostering resilient academic 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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