A side effect of the measure has meant that all scholars at public institutions in California, regardless of their race or the subject matter they study, are prohibited from traveling to the banned states. But this law has specifically harmed Black academics in California, where many of us work at state-funded colleges and universities.
More than 90% of Black Americans lived in Southern states until millions moved out during the Great Migration of the 1910s to 1960sThe vast majority of the first three centuries of Black American history took place in that region. To this day,.
As Black California academics, our problem with AB 1887 is its denial of academic freedom, which is ironically the centerpiece of the dispute over Black studies in Florida. Though California sets itself as the legislative antithesis of Florida, AB 1887’s effect upon academics is governmental overreach, not unlike Florida’s so-calledFlorida’s leaders, including presidential candidate Gov.