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After her talk, the author and University of Nebraska professor opened up the floor for questions, and one student pressed her about generalizations of white privilege, according to the university's newspaper, The George-Anne.

\"I noticed that you made a lot of generalizations about the majority of white people being privileged,\" the student said, according to the paper. \"What makes you believe that it's OK to come to a college campus, like this, when we are supposed to be promoting diversity on this campus, which is what we're taught. I don't understand what the purpose of this was.\"

\"I came here because I was invited, and I talked about white privilege because it's a real thing that you are actually benefiting from right now in even asking this question,\" Crucet responded, per the paper.

Here’s my official statement about what happened at the @GeorgiaSouthern event — and please direct all questions or media requests to James (dot) Meader (at) picadorusa (dot) com.

Much love and gratitude to all those who’ve shown support here and elsewhere. Abrazos to you all. pic.twitter.com/9uEuALUlvs

— Jennine Capó Crucet (@crucet) October 11, 2019

In her Friday statement, Crucet said the student had a \"hostile reaction\" that \"closely mirrored the exchange that I recount in the essay itself. it was very surreal and strange.\" She continued that \"after students began shouting back and forth at each other,\" she asked faculty to find the student who asked the question \"and other students who were similarly upset, and follow up with them because a compassionate and continuing conversation needed to occur.\"

Crucet added that \"the event continued as planned, with other students apologizing for the strangeness and rudeness they felt their peer had shown in the way the question was delivered.\"

Also want to say: I met some very amazing, brilliant students at @GeorgiaSouthern tonight. Many of them were the ones disrupting the aggressive & ignorant comments during the Q&A. At the signing, we hugged & cried. I‘m happy to know them and also legit worried for their safety.

— Jennine Capó Crucet (@crucet) October 10, 2019

Later Wednesday evening after the event, a video was posted on Twitter that showed a group of students allegedly burning her book.

so after our FYE book's author came to my school to talk about it... these people decide to burn her book because \"it's bad and that race is bad to talk about\". white people need to realize that they are the problem and that their privilege is toxic. author is a woman of color. pic.twitter.com/HiX4lGT7Ci

— elaina⭐️ (@elainaaan) October 10, 2019

\"While it's within the students' First Amendment rights, book burning does not align with Georgia Southern's values nor does it encourage the civil discourse and debate of ideas,\" John Lester, vice president for strategic communications and marketing said in a statement to The George-Anne.

Students at Georgia Southern University burned a book at Eagle Village, written by @crucet, after a Q&A session at her lecture Wednesday became heated.

Read more here: https://t.co/Re8VWOMkHV
Article by @sarahbsmithh and @McclainBaxley pic.twitter.com/OkDifF8Zbu

— The George-Anne (@TheGeorgeAnne) October 10, 2019

Crucet said that during the event \"many students remarked on how much the story of the novel's protagonist mirrored their own, and expressed gratitude for the book.\"

\"To think of those students watching as a group of their peers burned that story -- effectively erasing them on the campus they are expected to think of as a safe space -- feels devastating,\" she said.

Crucet has a second book, \"My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education,\" that includes a collection of essays on \"feeling like an 'accidental' American and the tectonic edges of identity in a society centered on whiteness,\" according to her website.

ABC News' Alexandra Svokos contributed to this report.

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