Students’ Demands Go Beyond Black and White
When Mi Gente, a group that represents Latino students at Duke University, announced that it would boycott a spring recruiting weekend for Latinos because its members were tired of simply being "poster children for brochures," black and Asian-American student groups took to social media to pledge their support. Meanwhile, they were busy with their own demands. All three wanted safe spaces where students could feel comfortable talking about their problems and an accelerated timeline for hiring minority professors. The Asian and Latino activists demanded centers that celebrated their cultures, and the black students wanted a crackdown on hate speech and the addition of "institutional racism and anti-oppression" topics in the freshman curriculum.