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Welcome to the website for the Anthropology Graduate Student Organization (AGSO) at Purdue University. Here you’ll find information about who we are and what we do as students in the graduate program in anthropology at Purdue University.
Meet Us
Black Lives Matter. We are outraged by the recent shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, WI, and the murders of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, KY, George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN, and Dreasjon Reed in Indianapolis, IN, to name only a few. Police violence and brutality must stop. As of August 22, 2020, there have only been twelve days this year where police did not kill someone in this country. Those whose lives are taken by police are three times more likely to be Black than they are white, and Black people killed by police are 1.3 times more likely than white people to be unarmed at the time their lives are ended by police. We can no longer sit quietly amid state violence against communities of color. As anthropologists we must take a stand against anti-Black racism and institutional inequality.
The Department of Anthropology stands with the WNBA and the NBA and pledges to take September 8-9, 2020 to participate in the #scholarstrike. We will withhold administrative, research, and teaching labor and/or hold teach-ins about structural violence and racism from historical and contemporary perspectives during class time. We support protestors, workers for social justice, and activists who are crucial parts of making our communities better places. As a community of scholars working in the public interest, we take this action as part of our affirmation that Black Lives Matter. #Scholarstrike will not end anti-Black racism, but it is a step toward recognizing and addressing overt and more subtle forms of injustice in our department, in the communities where we live and work, and in the world more broadly. We will use our positions in the classroom and beyond to encourage critical conversations and analysis, educate our students and ourselves about social impact, and pursue key ways of making a difference with lasting and institutional change.
The Department of Anthropology stands with the WNBA and the NBA and pledges to take September 8-9, 2020 to participate in the #scholarstrike. We will withhold administrative, research, and teaching labor and/or hold teach-ins about structural violence and racism from historical and contemporary perspectives during class time. We support protestors, workers for social justice, and activists who are crucial parts of making our communities better places. As a community of scholars working in the public interest, we take this action as part of our affirmation that Black Lives Matter. #Scholarstrike will not end anti-Black racism, but it is a step toward recognizing and addressing overt and more subtle forms of injustice in our department, in the communities where we live and work, and in the world more broadly. We will use our positions in the classroom and beyond to encourage critical conversations and analysis, educate our students and ourselves about social impact, and pursue key ways of making a difference with lasting and institutional change.