Land-centered Black student organizing

• In Event: Campus Struggles

Abstract

In this paper, the researcher presents principles of Black student organizing that center land. The emerging scholar conducted 30 one-on-one interviews and 3 focus groups with Black post-secondary student organizers from the United States and Canada between late 2020-early 2021. The findings demonstrate Black students are engaged in university/college activism that transcends the boundaries of campus. The researcher co-theorizes with Black student organizers how centering land shapes more liberating collaborations and commitments. Most notably, Black student activists refuse relationships to land and conceptualizations of land that are rooted in settler colonialism and anti-blackness.

Presenter

• Sefanit Habtom, University of Toronto