Recognition of minorities and censorship in American universities
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On American campuses, professors denounce the pressure exerted by their students and social networks to no longer deal with certain subjects.
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By: Emmanuelle Bastide
57 mins
For a few years now, the notion of cancel culture has emerged in the debate in the United States, where it was born.
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On American campuses, professors denounce the pressure exerted by their students and social networks to no longer deal with certain subjects.
Some are fired from university for making comments deemed offensive.
The students, for their part, call for a new look at history, society and the rights of minorities.
Does cancel culture really exist?
How do American universities react to their students' demands for development?
What are the stakes of these controversies that are winning over many countries?
Audrey Célestine
, lecturer in political sociology and American studies at the
University of Lille
.
Author of the book
Des vies de combat
: femmes, black et free (Editions de L'iconoclaste)
Alessia Lefébure
, sociologist, director of studies at
EHESP (school of higher studies in public health)
and author of
Les Madarins 2 - a Chinese bureaucracy formed in the American style
(Presses de Sciences Po)
And an interview of Daniel Kovalik by
Charlie Dupiot
Daniel Kovalik is an American human rights lawyer, he teaches at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
He recently published the book “Cancel this book”, which could be translated in French as “Supprimez” or “effacez ce livre”.
He wants to sound the alarm on this “cancel culture” which encourages people to publicly denounce people or institutions for their positions considered problematic.
A phenomenon which, according to him, has been growing for 5 years.
Daniel Kovalik took to the pen after an incident in his hometown of Pittsburgh.
Interview Daniel Kovalik, American human rights lawyer by Charlie Dupiot
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