Students at Georgia Southern University gathered outside a dorm to burn author Jennine Capó Crucet’s novel Make Your Home Among Strangers after accusing her of making “generalizations about the majority of white people” at an October 9 talk with students (Crucet was previously my professor).
“‘I noticed that you made a lot of generalizations about the majority of white people being privileged,’ one respondent said into the microphone. ‘What makes you believe that it’s okay to come to a college campus, like this, when we are supposed to be promoting diversity on this campus, which is what we’re taught. I don’t understand what the purpose of this was.
“‘I came here because I was invited and I talked about white privilege because it’s a real thing that you are actually benefiting from right now in even asking this question,” Crucet said. What’s so heartbreaking for me and what is so difficult in this moment right now is to literally have read a talk about this exact moment happening and it’s happening again. That is why a different experience, the white experience, is centered in this talk.
canceled. On Twitter, Crucet said the event “was canceled because the administration said they could not guarantee my safety or the safety of its students on campus because of open carry laws.”she will be releasing a statement in regards to the harassment and book burning via her agent. Crucet’s latest book,
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