Introduction: interrogating the memory landscape of higher education

Abstract

ABSTRACT This is the first part of a two-part forum called Interventions in Public Memory: Interrogating the Critical/Cultural Landscape of Higher Education, edited by Meredith M. Bagley. In this installment, scholar activists engage critical questions of public memory on their own higher education campuses, including relationships to the land, resistance to institutional memory, and tensions of “town and gown.” Contributors write their own experiences into the work of resisting dominant and/or anti-Black memory practices within higher education, with the aim of motivating colleagues for similar acts of intervention.