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Iowa Profs: Equal treatment is a 'race-evasive' strategy that reinforces 'white racial power' |
2017-12-15 |
[Breitbart] Professors Kyle Rudick and Kathryn B. Golsan of the University of Northern Iowa argued in a recent academic article in the Howard Journal of Communications that asking for civility in classroom discussions reinforces "white racial power."In this study, the authors draw upon critical whiteness studies to explore how White students’ understanding of race-talk within higher education (re)produces whiteness. Through an analysis of interview data, they generated 3 categories describing whiteness-informed civility (WIC): (a) WIC functions to create a good White identity, (b) WIC functions to erase racial identity, and (c) WIC functions to assert control of space. These thematic concepts show how WIC is characterized by logics of race-evasion, avoidance of race-talk, and exclusion of people of color. The authors conclude by offering ways for instructors to interrogate WIC through classroom practices informed by critical communication pedagogy. In the article, Rudick and Goslan interviewed 10 white colleges students to obtain a better grasp on their personal definition of "civil behavior." "How do you think your racial identity may affect your understandings of civility when talking with students of color?" they asked the student participants. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#8 When can we expect the media who report this stuff to finally, at long last, just laugh in their faces and tell them they are silly? We are at the apogee of political correctness these days, and enough is enough.... |
Posted by: NoMoreBS 2017-12-15 17:43 |
#7 Silentbrick, you are unfairly impugning rats and roaches. |
Posted by: Glenmore 2017-12-15 16:33 |
#6 Equal means not equal? I don't want to fly in an airplane designed by people of such advanced mathematical expertise. |
Posted by: Glenmore 2017-12-15 16:32 |
#5 I was once discharged because "my engagement practices were not sensitive to the black cultural experience". My ineffective retort was something like, "How would I know?" |
Posted by: Skidmark 2017-12-15 12:50 |
#4 Anyone claiming to be anything other than human should immediately be vivisected and put into jars for study. I'm done with the race thing. You are human or you are subhuman vermin. Those are the ONLY TWO choices. |
Posted by: Silentbrick 2017-12-15 10:58 |
#3 "How do you think your racial identity may affect your understandings of civility when talking with students of color?" they asked the student participants with prejudicial and misleading questions. FIFY |
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-12-15 10:53 |
#2 Getting the message? It was never about equality, it was about power. Submit! |
Posted by: P2kontheroad 2017-12-15 07:57 |
#1 Equal treatment? No additional signalling necessary. Equal treatment has never actually been the goal. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2017-12-15 06:08 |