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Censored Curricula and Carceral Campuses: What is a Democratic Response?

Day 2 June 4, 2024

Libraries, schools, and universities are contested spaces: What is education for? Who deserves quality education? What should be taught, and who decides? Book-banning, school board takeovers, and attacks on Critical Race Theory, Black Studies, and Queer Studies represent a backlash against modest education reforms. The violent crackdown on campus protests amid university corporatization, student debt crises, and hostile environments for students and faculty of color highlights the need for a broad educational justice movement. How is this movement connected to K-12 schools to colleges, universities, libraries, and other learning sites?

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