Campus Protests and our National Amnesia

Matthew Teutsch
6 min readMay 2, 2024

Over the past few weeks, we have see countless protests across university campuses calling for administrations to divest from Israel and for a cease fire in the Palestinian-Israeli war. We have seen the militarization of law enforcement, sometimes called on campus at the behest of universities and other times preemptively by governors, to squash these protests. We have seen students and faculty arrested, sometimes…

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Matthew Teutsch

Here, you will find reflections on African American, American, and Southern Literature, American popular culture and politics, and pedagogy.