“We Are Not All From Africa:” Fragmentation and the Politics of Identity Among NCSU’s African-American Students in the Early 1990s.

Introduction

If debates about racial inequality stirred up controversies between different racial and ethnic groups on the NCSU campus, these debates also revealed deep divides within the African American community about questions of identity, politics, and activism.  The divisions that emerged in the Technician reflected the multiplicity of black identity and the inability of different African American groups to decide on a single way forward for the black freedom struggle.