In an anonymous letter addressed to the Pomona College Department of Sociology and outgoing president David Oxtoby, 128 students, alumni, and “allies” called for the termination of a professor for her “dubious reputation, her hyper-criminalization of Black men, and hyper-sexualization of Black women.” Professor Alice Goffman received considerable controversy for her book “On The Run,” which documented her observations of a poor black neighborhood in West Philadelphia.
The letter states the following justification for terminating Dr. Goffman:
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