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The Culture Of Resistance Featuring Pleasure, Leisure, And Joy, Gabriella Osifo
The Culture Of Resistance Featuring Pleasure, Leisure, And Joy, Gabriella Osifo
Scripps Senior Theses
Black students within predominantly white institutions (PWIs) have a unique experience due to the fact that they reside in higher learning institutions that were never meant to hold Black, queer bodies. Residentially, academically, and structurally PWIs display a quality of lacking which consists of failing to provide appropriate resources, acknowledge structural barriers, and address complaints made by students of queer identities, namely Black students, in meaningful and effective ways. Through examining the history of Black student-led movements within the five Claremont Colleges (5Cs) using a Black Existentialism lens, this paper seeks to understand the positionality of this quality of lacking …