Thread: On Race Matters and Speaking Up in Cambridge. I've not commented on this till now--deliberately--although people have asked me to. Some weeks ago, one of our most gifted Phd Students withdrew from her PhD here & posted her withdrawal letter publicly. Am not tagging her
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2 "the unreasonable and quite shocking level of hostility one can expect when trying to institute even moderate measures of racial justice" in faculty & univ. This is so familiar: raise issues around race or racial justice,be met with ferocious pushback & outraged 'dignity'.
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3. Way in which both black scholars & non-white thought are often treated as a bit of a joke., not really to be treated seriously: 'veiling racism through a performance of faux humility and bumbling foolishness, which is something of a tradition among the British elite classes'.
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I am deeply sorry that neither the Faculty nor the University have seen fit to acknowledge this letter publicly--I know there are many people who are better than this-- for it took courage to write it. There really are only two choices before us now: either stay silent on
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race & racism (the piecemeal & emollient initiatives not really changing things) or have open, DIFFICULT conversations on this & related matters to enact meaningful structural and intellectual change. Sadly, I think I know what we will choose.
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4. The dangers of 'decolonize' initiatives turning into modest reformist affairs: "We often got stuck on piecemeal, conciliatory, and even counterproductive demands, I think because anything more felt like an impossibility..
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@KGuilaine have been writing about this for some time now. I believe change is constant ...soon come!Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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