The Assault on Ethnic Studies: Professor Lina-Maria Murillo Sounds the Alarm

KPFA - Hard Knock Radio · Sep 9, 2026 · 59m

On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D spoke with Professor Lina-Maria Murillo about the dismantling of ethnic studies and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Murillo, an associate professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, explained that UT has consolidated African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American and Latino Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies into one massive department. Murillo argued that the move is part of a broader attack on higher education that accelerated following the multiracial protests and organizing sparked by…