This article examines antiracism obligations amid police and military violence in the US and Palestine, highlighting university roles.
If universities are committed to intellectual liberation, must they also be committed to liberation from racial oppression? And if they are to be antiracist institutions, to what kind of antiracism must they adhere? Beginning with a reflection on the multiple histories of racism and antiracism at the Vught camp and prison in the Netherlands, and surveying the work of scholars such as Anton de Kom and Frantz Fanon, this article explores the obligations of solidarity that fall upon European and US universities, in the shadow of racially organized police, military, border, and prison violences, from the United States to the Netherlands to Palestine.
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