Which is an admirable goal under certain circumstances, but this wasn't a workshop on white privilege or fragility (where POC scholars are too often asked to do emotional labor for white ppl), but a scholarly talk on research to scholars who didn't know the topic well.
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@ISASaxonists' point here. This is the sort of talk that is important for scholars' careers and the feedback can be extremely helpful to their work. Deliberately not inviting POC, even with good intentions, means shutting them out from those benefits.2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
I debated whether to accept, tbh, and agreed because I was told that the Seminar had invited scholars of color to speak already on other topics and was going to invite more in the future. I still am not sure if it was appropriate for me to agree, in all honesty.
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I really loved your talk and was very glad to hear it. I had also expected prior to it that it would be closer to a 'race 101' type workshop, but I think I simply misunderstood things there.
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I also want to point out here that we really have not invited that many POC to speak. I enjoyed Erik’s talk as well, but I honestly think that it was a misstep to invite a white man to discuss this.
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Do you know who is responsible for next year's seminar? If they're not on twitter, it would be good for us to get in touch and make the point, wouldn't it?
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I am not, unfortunately. But yes, it should be emphasized.
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Perhaps it hasn't been decided yet. I'll find out.
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To your point about this being a race 101 talk this would be understandable if it was a race 101 talk but this was a talk about research. How are BIPOC scholars going to get their research out there if they are silenced in this way? This leads me to believe that this dept doesnt
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Prior to the talk, I had thought it was to be a race 101 talk and that was why a white scholar had been invited. I think you are right.
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I’m sorry to say but I don’t understand why anyone would think that, we all had the title for two weeks and Erik was asked well before then I suspect. His title makes it quite clear that it was a scholarly research paper.
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In the discussion after my paper, there was a suggestion we needed a race 101 talk and someone should be invited to give it. I'm pretty sure that was the literal term used, though obviously I could be wrong.
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Well, okay, but my point is there seems to be some disconnect here. The way that Ruth discussed it sounded to me that you and her decided on Erik and jointly organized it, or did I misunderstand?
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