Rolling 2016 Thread on Race

https://thenerdsofcolor.org/2016/07/11/who-is-marvels-blaxploitation-luke-cage-comic-even-for-exactly/

yes I know I've posted this to three different threads

that's a smart write-up; i like the way he acknowledges that blaxploitation films can kind of go in either direction (or both at once) .

thought this piece by riz ahmed on racial profiling & typecasting was great & darkly funny

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/15/riz-ahmed-typecast-as-a-terrorist

I was trying to determine which thread to post that on and ended up forgetting entirely.

I hope he has a follow-up in another year after he's played a... freedom fighter... in a Star Wars film.

The new Swetshop Boys single, T5, is about the same thing. The album should hopefully be better than Heems' solo one.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mirajacob/questions-from-my-mixed-race-son?utm_term=.yxEVMpwX8#.tgNE5LPw0

okay I loved that and I didn't expect to

kids rule

awwww

yeah that's great

last few articles linked from this thread were all excellent

omg

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/cary-news/article106145867.html

tbf, she did use to read WORD UP magazine

The theme of the annual celebration, which will run Jan. 14 to 16, is “Healing Race Relations through Conversation and Participation.” Attendees will be able to delve into this theme through a variety of events, including an International Diversity Summit at the Cary Arts Center, featuring panel discussions with community and religious leaders.

Participation.

Participation.

Donald Trump has made it safe for flight crews to be really, really racist again.

http://distractify.com/trending/2016/10/12/racist-flight-crew

http://io9.gizmodo.com/united-airlines-kicks-passenger-off-because-of-marvel-s-1787717851

From Donald Glover's Atlanta series on FX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUKSGJcYwMM

wow

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-white-flight-of-derek-black/2016/10/15/ed5f906a-8f3b-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html

I kind of glossed over this story until I realized:

a) this dude was the son of the guy who started St*rmfr*nt; and
b) one of his medieval history professors is a woman I sang with in college

I'm beginning to think DJP's college singing experience was spent mostly in Polyphonic Spree.

lol well I sang in two separate 60-person choirs so... kinda

Incredible story.

Off-topic, this: "X is a person I sang with in college" must be my favourite vmic-post on ilx :)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/10/25/white-high-schoolers-in-mississippi-put-a-noose-around-a-black-students-neck-and-yanked-naacp-says/

jesus fucking christ

and the comments are a horrorshow

On the lighter side (pun intended):

https://twitter.com/NifMuhammad/status/791745979875753987

https://frinkiac.com/img/S08E02/515664.jpg

@rembert
coat switching is white jason waterfalls

https://vivatiffany.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/academia-love-me-back/

http://i.imgur.com/ggV5yYx.png

do we have a race and academia thread?

This makes me furious.

yeah... it sucks. usually when we encounter this sort of thing it's more subtle and undocumented.

xp to DJP. As well it might. It's infuriating.

The only explanation (not an excuse!) is that over a period of decades many professors' minds slowly congeal into an oleaginous mass of unmerited assumptions regarding their own superiority over their students, who they reflexively dismiss as callow, ill-educated, irritating and foolish. This prof needs to be publically humiliated in the worst possible way.

it's horrible and idk how anyone could defend it
i do not believe in public humiliation though

i believe in humiliating public humiliators

you're latino so you can't use the word hence?

The only good that could come of this shameful event would be for the professor involved to feel such a strong sense of remorse that he would never again unthinkingly repeat it.

she

sorry. she.

Devil's advocate: it is possible that this prof found failures to provide appropriate attribution?

that wouldn't justify this behaviour

ah true I missed the in-front-of-class accusation on first read

what kind of idiot professor thinks "hence" is such an exotic word that surely it must be plagiarized. "hence" is such an undergrad word. what a dumbass.

anything is possible
i deal with stuff like this all the time and any professor who circles one word and writes that it's not someone's word is an unprofessional asshole -- i teach my students about academic vocab and assure them that these are their words to use. then calling it out in front of the rest of the class? also horrible asshole behavior. i do not think that escalating the cycle of public shaming is going to yield any valuable lessons taught though. it just yields and spreads more shame and anger.

Went back to reread the blog post. The author is scrupulous about not revealing the gender of the professor and the only pronoun I saw used was "they". Otherwise, it is "professor", "person" or similarly gender-neutral terms. Which is to her credit.

LL i'm not sure what your objection is, the student doesn't name the professor anywhere in the post. and it's the professor who humiliated her in front of the class...

obviously both the written comment (assuming, as quincie points out, that there was not failure to cite a source) and calling her out in front of the class are awful. that said some of the commenters on her blog are encouraging her to take the issue up with the dean, department head, etc, which sounds like...a bad idea

I am not objecting to her statement of her experience. That is hers to express and I support her right to share her experience because it does indeed need to be shared if so many people think that this is a rare experience. It's not, unfortunately.

I am objecting to perpetuating the cycle by publicly shaming the professor in retaliation. It was suggested that this was an adequate solution and I don't believe that it is. Taking it to the chair and the dean makes a lot more sense, and this has been done many times where I work. It's not uncommon. (I am not interested in getting into detail about my job here, please -- I hope by now ILX trusts that I have my heart in the right place)

oh i see that you were responding to aimless's post. i agree that public humiliation would probably not be useful

Going to the dean/department head absolutely makes sense unless this professor IS the department head (in which case I'd go to the dean).

she has reason to be upset but i'd be wary of going that route, particularly for an aspiring academic who is going to need letters of recommendation for grad school. it seems like it could easily backfire

confronting the professor directly would probably be the best option though i realize it's a lot easier for me to say that than for her to do it

she already has a situation where a professor has labeled her a plagiarist in front of an entire class; how many recommendations do you think she's going to be getting out of this department if she just meekly accepts this and talks to no one else?

http://www.kcci.com/article/police-investigating-white-heritage-posters-at-isu/7664984

At this point, officials say this is a policy violation, and they want to talk to whoever hung up the signs to find out their intent.

I will give you three guesses, officials, and the first two don't count.

Wanna see how Facebook's advertising department views you? If you go to https://m.facebook.com/ads/preferences/categories/ and click on "Lifestyle and Culture," you can see your "Ethnic Affinity" - not necessarily who they think you are, but what kind of products and services they think you might be interested in. Mine is "African-American," probably because I post about jazz a lot.

interestingly as a UK citizen i don't appear to have an "Ethnic Affinity" tag, presumably because we're such a big chill melting-pot