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White people cannot be victims of racial discrimination in a country where the balance of power & privilege lies with White people. Professor Oscar Monge is Native American and Chicano. Article does a very poor job of critical discussion of the issueshttps://twitter.com/JessieNYC/status/950362681889951746 …
There's clearly more to the investigation and evaluation as it's ongoing. But the examples presented in this article are poorly presented though being highly complex, such as cultural appropriation at universities & the misuse of racially loaded terms like "totem pole."
The student says she feels racially discriminated against because she's White, and Prof Monge used critical race concepts like White saviour and Whiteness. Discussing racism is not racism. This is White fragility: "she was angry and had never been called a racist before..."pic.twitter.com/8pP5O3TNPq
Article is by the same Chronicle author who just published a rape apologist article excusing sexual harassment. Look back over her work for the Chronicle & see the same pattern where White male perpetrators are presented as victims but survivors are liars.https://twitter.com/OtherSociology/status/949668072016592897 …
According to the Chronicle: White women are only to be believed on sexual harassment when they support patriarchy and White supremacy.
White men always need the benefit of the doubt, even with multiple reports.
But #POC are given one paragraph max despite ongoing evaluation.
Ultimately those who are less receptive to discussions around whiteness and racism, are actually the students that I most want to reach with my message.
Important to begin and return to their education as a challenge: do they want to accept the status quo as taken for granted, or do they want to be active participants in change? Main thing is to question passivity as White people. Martin Luther King Jr & others are useful here
Agree. The @chronicle once again proves to be trash.
Yep. The Chronicle lacks integrity and it's committed to promoting inequality in higher education
This is very scary. I know that as a teacher whenever I speak about whiteness, colonialism and justice, some students are receptive right away...others seem to take more time. I worry that others shut me down completely and then take everything as a personal affront.
There's a lot of solid research showing students react poorly when being challenged to rethink their world views, such as through the sociology of history and critical race studies. POC are doubly punished by resentful students when they teach about anti-racism.
Makes sense. Which is y I think as a W educator the responsibility should b even more on me. I have a small # of W men in my classes but I don't wanna leave them behind in those discussions or I lose them 4ever. It's hard cuz they dont always tell you how they feel till the evals
Can you do evals more often? The times I've been in charge of my own course and it's been brand new I try to build in feedback early on so I can fix things that aren't working and address concerns.
Yes, but IMO mid semester evals are hardly anonymous & some students don't really address some issues till the end of the semester evals, and I don't blame them. It's easy to figure out which students wrote what when it's a small class and you know your students fairly well IMO
I've been trying to think about why mine have seemed successful. I wonder if it's because I've tended to do procedural based feedback sessions. 1/2
That way it's not so much what they think about me, but how information is transmitted, time to complete assignments, things that aren't directly about me that they may feel more comfortable responding to honestly. 2/2
As a white woman it is important to me to be able to talk about whiteness with students but sometimes I want to go too fast and some are not prepared. It's hard cuz there are students from so many diff. backgrounds that I'm not always sure how fast I can arrive to some concepts
I think I modified my approach this past semester and I'm eager to read my teaching eval S to see if anyone felt offended or that I was preaching "white hate." I really hope that is not the case.
I think I also loose when a student shuts me down as biased. I feel I have failed to reach them & I may have pushed them away instead of making them more receptive to the msg. Sometimes I let students arrive to some conclusions on their own and for some it works better.
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