Black students Archives - Interrupting Privilege

It’s So Great to Have That Community

In this clip, two Black grad students talk about the feeling of having community in an isolating situation like grad school.

Being the Only Black Males in the Program

UW Communications · Being The Only Black Males In The Program

That’s Why We Need These Spaces

In this clip, two UW graduate students and their advisor discuss how easy it is for women of color to slip through the cracks and how grateful they are for their friendship and the CCDE to keep that from happening to them.

The Net That Catches Us

Listen as a UW graduate student shares her experience of finding support and compassion through the CCDE and her friendships when the stress of graduate school became overwhelming.

Build a Black Wall Street in WA State

Listen to a student athlete share his dream of building a “Black Wall Street” in Washington State.

Student Athletes Are More Than Just Athletes

Listen to a student athlete share about his aspirations to the vice provost, who reflects on how we should see student athletes in their full humanity.

Life Hitting the Brick Wall of the Pandemic

In this clip, listen as a graduate student shares the challenges and changes they faced with starting graduate school in the pandemic.

Episode 2: To Stir the Pot or Keep the Peace

Two graduate students discuss how life in Seattle has affected their daily lives.

Episode 1: To Stir the Pot or Keep the Peace

Two graduate students discuss the process of evaluating the spaces that they find themselves in before deciding to stir the pot or keep the peace.

I Try to Interrupt Racism, but It Can Be Hard

Two Black students share what interrupting racism looks like for them and when they interrupt racism.

It Doesn’t Have to Be All About Race It Can Just Be About Learning

Two students describe their experiences attending a college where race or racial discrimination aren’t as prevalent.

We Have Black Students, So Put Us on the Pedestal

Two students describe how their high school boasts diversity while still treating Black students as tokens.

Black and People of Color

Two students discuss the differences between Black people and people of color.

Pan-Africanist Community-Building/Support

A Black and an Ethiopian student describe what it looks like to build community with one another.

Bilingual First-Gen Theory

Two first-generation college students commiserate about their experiences at university

Interactions Between Black People and African Americans

Black student describes the trauma of slavery on Black Americans who were stripped of their connection to their ancestral homelands and how that history impacts current interactions between Black people and African immigrants.

I Really See No Need to Distance Yourself From Each Other

Black student describes how the Black American and Black immigrant communities are fighting the same battles in the U.S.

When Am I Going to Be Good Enough

A young Black woman describes an experience in which she and her friends were unjustly targeted during a school event.

They Put Our Face on It but We’re Not Actually Included in the Things

Black woman shares how her freshman year experience at the University of Washington was a difficult transition from growing up in very diverse spaces to being one of the only Black people in her major.

Never Just a Student

Two Black students discuss what it looks like to be Black women in high school and how they balance the burden of responsibility in the classroom.

Academic Tracking

Two Black high school students discuss the impact of the different academic tracking programs in their school.

Strong Black Women

High school students describe their experiences as Black women in their school and the intersectional pressures they face.

Being Black in the Greek System

Black students describe their journeys in the Greek system as the only Black students in their houses and the work they’ve done with their houses to have conversations to make allies out of their brothers.