No Study Without Struggle is a Love Letter

With deep inspiration from Sara Ahmed’s profound words that a book can be a thank you note, I share below the love and gratitude letter I wrote and shared as part of the Leading with Justice series. The session was organized around my recent book from Beacon Press, No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism…

Universities’ Foundation of Stolen Labor (and Stolen Remains) Demands a Reckoning

On Friday, June 4, the remains of two Black girls, Delisha and Katricia “Tree” Africa, were to be collected from the home of physical anthropologist Alan Mann, an emeritus professor associated with both the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. Delisha and Tree were members of the Black liberation community in Philadelphia known as the…

Leigh Patel

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No Study Without Struggle is a Love Letter

Universities’ Foundation of Stolen Labor (and Stolen Remains) Demands a Reckoning