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Rose Geer chose to major in English at BU with hopes of reading writers outside the traditional Western canon, particularly writers of color. She signed up for this spring’s Resistance, Revolution and Slavery in African American Literature course after last year’s Black Lives Matter protests and after a summer quarantine for COVID-19 crimped her participation in the resulting justice movement discussions.
“I needed to be in a space where racism and ‘the afterlife of slavery’…was the highest priority,” Geer (CAS’21) says. She found that space in this spring’s new African American studies Resistance, Revolution and Slavery