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When Book Burning Is an Act of Racial Terrorism

What happened to Jennine Capó Crucet at Georgia Southern University is not an isolated incident

Anjali Enjeti
ZORA
Published in
4 min readOct 14, 2019

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Jennine Capó Crucet speaks as a guest at the Vulture Festival.
Jennine Capó Crucet. Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty

OnOn Wednesday evening, students at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, burned copies of the novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers by Latinx author and University of Nebraska-Lincoln…

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Anjali Enjeti
ZORA
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Journalist, critic & columnist at ZORA. Essay collection SOUTHBOUND (UGA Press) & debut novel THE PARTED EARTH (Hub City Press), spring ’21. anjalienjeti.com.