Zohran Mamdani’s Radical Roots at Bowdoin College

Students who study Africana studies at Zohran Mamdani’s alma mater, Bowdoin College, as he did, will spend this semester participating in courses like “Affirmative Action and United States History,” “Feminist Theory: Women of Color Feminisms and the Politics of Difference,” “Race, Land and (Dis)/(Re)possession: Critical Topics in Environmental (In)justice and Subaltern Geo,” and “Advanced Afro-Modern: Dancing Towards Social Change.”

In 2019, Mamdani told the student paper, the Bowdoin Orient, that his studies were “very formative” and informed his thinking about urban problems. “Why they exist — and who made them exist,” he said. (He also told the paper that student organizers should not “feel like any position is too radical.”)

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Students who study Africana studies at Zohran Mamdani’s alma mater, Bowdoin College, as he did, will spend this semester participating in courses like “Affirmative Action and United States History,” “Feminist Theory: Women of Color Feminisms and the Politics of Difference,” “Race, Land and (Dis)/(Re)possession: Critical Topics in Environmental (In)justice and Subaltern Geo,” and “Advanced Afro-Modern: Dancing Towards Social Change.”

In 2019, Mamdani told the student paper, the Bowdoin Orient, that his studies were “very formative” and informed his thinking about urban problems. “Why they exist — and who made them exist,” he said. (He also told the paper that student organizers should not “feel like any position is too radical.”)