there’s an essay to be written on white resentment & literary study: white folx upset over diversity initiatives/no jobs,depts upset they must address whiteness in canon formation,white students upset too much race convos students/teachers of color bear the brunt of resentment
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But I don’t think many frame it as a white resentment towards a hey-day of university life that never was, was always bound to fail once minority bodies started entering, & for now the pendulum has swung towards bringing in non-white teachers & students & curriculum.
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Then you have 99% white-led departments being confronted about curriculum by some of the student body. They feel pressed, but don’t fundamentally change the structures in place or pedagogy. Just Hire someone diverse, teach a course or two on X diverse field, & call it a day
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then you have students who take courses that de-center whiteness or white authors, & you get comments like I once received in an eval: “He talks too much about race in class.” & the recent burning of Jennine Capó Crucet’s book at a college highlights how this resentment unfolds
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what ends up happening is all these points come into contact, create spaces, & yet we can’t identify it as white resentment, a kind of collective white angst over who we read, how we read, & who teaches the reading. this leaves hostile environments for poc all around.
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This environment structured by white resentment informs how poc move, feel: as students in middle/high school & undergrad, as graduate students not feeling comfortable or being able to trust your white cohort, as faculty constantly being surveilled by students & colleagues.
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Have you seen what is happening in medieval studies at the moment?
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Not aware of too much of what’s unfolding but have seen that it’s raising a lot of ire from white people trying to claim what medieval studies/lit is, the term Anglo Saxon. Most of my knowledge on this comes from the work of
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