demands were drafted and submitted by jenny diaz at the time when the campus was not only predominantly white, but also overwhelmingly male. is highly selective, organized and strategic. philosopher writing on knowledge, power and the modern state revealed both the constructive processes of histories and the voices from archives and unlegitimated sources that tangle with history's stories. he identified the subjecated knowledges as knowledges that have been disqualified as inadequate to their task or insufficiently elaborated. if we consider that public history is a form of collective knowledge, the exclusion i have knowledge, the exclusion of women creates a complete and punitive history. the contentious history of the student protests disrupts the consensus driven memory. the liberation of conklin hall is celebrated as an acts of nonviolent civil disobedience racial con sill agency, and not a black student protest. the commemoration focuses on positive aspects of the sit-in, while reducing the experiences to a single act. nearly all of the participants interviewed for the project say