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Jalil Bishop contextualizes the black student debt crisis in the history of debt being used as a system of control against Black people. He discusses the ways debt impacts black borrowers and the urgent need to challenge racial capitalism and fight for anti-racist policies at every level.
Jalil Bishop is a vice-provost postdoctoral scholar and lecturer in the higher education division at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Debt Collective.
Jalil Bishop contextualizes the black student debt crisis in the history of debt being used as a system of control against Black people. He discusses the ways debt impacts black borrowers and the urgent need to challenge racial capitalism and fight for anti-racist policies at every level.
Jalil Bishop is a vice-provost postdoctoral scholar and lecturer in the higher education division at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Debt Collective.










