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It traces how student activism contests legacies of slavery and contemporary white supremacy in campus life, while linking present organizing to the longer abolition movement. Through events such as the removal of Confederate monuments and student-led institutional reparations efforts, the book highlights evolving strategies for racial justice and the intellectual traditions shaping Black freedom within higher education.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDissenting Forces  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDissenting Forces  \nA History of Abolition and Black Thought in Higher  \nLearning  \nMichael E. Jirik  \nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nNEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nNew York  \n[www.nyupress.org](www.nyupress.org)  \n© 2025 by New York University All rights reserved  \nPlease contact the Library of Congress for Cataloging-in-Publication data.  \nISBN: 9781479836611 (hardback)  \nISBN: 9781479836697 (library ebook)  \nISBN: 9781479836642 (consumer ebook)  \nThis book is printed on acid-free paper, and its binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. We strive to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the greatest extent possible in publishing our books.  \nThe manufacturer ’s authorized representative in the EU for product safety is Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Mauritskade 21D, 1091 GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Email: [gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk](gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk).  \nManufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nAlso available as an ebook  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo past, present, and future students of Africana Studies  \nTo all the Knubians  \nTo Candace  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nIntroduction  \nPart I. Student Abolition as a Concept Versus Colonization  \n1. Black Students and the Academy  \n2. Colonization’s Colleges  \nPart II. Black Thought and Black Higher Learning  \n3. Black Culture, Black Resistance  \n4. The White Abolitionist Insurgency  \n5. Developing Black Higher Learning  \n6. The Making of a Tradition  \nEpilogue: Sketching the Legacy  \nAcknowledgments  \nNotes  \nIndex  \nAbout the Author  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nIntroduction  \nOn the night of August 20, 2018, a group of student protesters at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill surrounded Silent Sam, a Confederate statue on campus, and tore it down. The statue had long been controversial, dating back to its erection in 1913 when a speaker lauded the Confederacy and bragged about violently assaulting an unnamed African American woman. The statue was a marker of white supremacy on campus, its history rooted in the university’s historical connections to slavery. In toppling the statue, however, students protested anti-Black racism on campus. The event marked an evolution in student activism for racial justice. In April 2019, students at Georgetown University voted to implement a student fee dedicated to supporting health care and educational programs in communities of descendants of enslaved people sold by university officials in 1838. Coming from students was an institutional reparations program for a descendant community. More recently, college students have been among the foremost protesters and organizers in the Movement for Black Lives in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Merci Mack, and so many others.1 As these cases demonstrate, students have played pivotal roles in social movements, demanding remedies to racism and other inequalities in society today. These examples are among many in recent years illustrating the tensions on college campuses between the legacies of slavery and the pervasiveness of white supremacy on the one hand and social movements seeking to deconstruct oppressive systems exploiting historically marginalized peopleson the other. They also reveal a renewed student movement for Black freedom at universities and in society more generally. While contemporary forms of racism and injustice at universities are rooted in academia’s historical ties to slavery and racism, the student activists imagining new ways of living and seeking to build a different world today also have a history, and it is rooted in the abolition movement.  \nDissenting Forces is a study of Black resistance and thought and abolitionist dissent at colleges, theological seminaries, and universities in","cbCaif7iuOTj7EPZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaif7iuOTj7EPZ","pdf",4655070,1,313,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n# Part I. Student Abolition as a Concept Versus Colonization\n## Black Students and the Academy\n## Colonization’s Colleges\n# Part II. 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