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Interview no. |
L-0464 |
Title |
L-0464 Interview with Joie Lou Shakur |
Restrictions |
Closed until 2026. |
Project |
L.15. University of North Carolina: Racial Justice Activism |
Date |
2016-04-08 |
Interviewee |
Shakur, Joie Lou. |
Interviewee occupation |
Activists |
Interviewer |
Faulkenbury, T. Evan. |
Abstract |
Joie Lou Shakur was born in Jamaica and lived there until a high school volleyball scholarship brought them to play for a Southside Baptist Christian School in Richmond, Virginia. While attending school there, Shakur describes living in an extremely fundamentalist Christian environment, and enduring abuse and culture shock, which she describes as a cult. They describe how school officials threatened to deport Jamaican students for reporting abuses. Shakur began attending UNC after receiving the Carolina Covenant scholarship and had a difficult freshman year, but became involved with campus Christian ministries, especially a group associated with the evangelical Summit Church in Durham. They left the Summit toward the end of sophomore year and became more attuned to sexuality, now identifying as non-binary. They started to become politically active through their involvement with the North Carolina Fellows Program, which Shakur believed was too white and conservative. They later became involved with the Real Silent Sam Coalition protesting against racism at UNC. Shakur talks about racism, oppression, and fighting back as a student at UNC during the last twenty minutes of the interview, including about the Confederate Monument (Silent Sam), Saunders Hall (now Carolina Hall), and university administration. |
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