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 Writing in 2014, Gilroy argues that the 1996 conversation took place in a space where ““The US-centric liturgy of generic, internet-friendly  identity-talk  is  entirely  absent. It was not a factor when these dialogues took place. There are no casual invocations here of either privilege or victimage” (xi). How has such modern language substantively changed the conversation? What have we lost through the digital shift?

 

Hall and hooks both discuss whether universities represent spaces for political conversations (4). hooks recounts that “I remember the lack of spaces of conversation as one of  my deepest disappointments when I arrived at Stanford. Evidently, at one time, they had designated rooms where people could get together to have tea and talk” (4). How much learning and change (should) happen in vs. outside the classroom? What are the limits of formally recognized spaces of knowledge?

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