Hampshire College Professor Susana Loza on Disrupting and Dismantling White Supremacy

Professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Media Studies Susana Loza is a member of the In/Justice Learning Collaborative, one of four groups of faculty, staff, and students addressing real-world urgent challenges that drive the curriculum.

"There's very few places that I would be able to teach at where you would be connected together as part of any kind of organization where your explicit goal is to disrupt and dismantle white supremacy," says Loza. "That is such an inspiration to me, and it makes me want to continue developing courses that push students to do that work here at Hampshire, but, more importantly, push them to do that work when they leave Hampshire."

In addition to classes that look at the dark realities and histories of our culture, she explains that she is crafting a new class, “Speculative Visions: from Afrofuturism to Steampunk” that will be focused on hopeful paths through the crisis of today “through community, connection, and building and imaging something else.”