#BlackintheIvoryTower Addendum to previous thread. This one's short. Erasures are funny thing: when men wrote romances, it was literature. When women wrote/write romance it became genre fiction. When BIPOC studied issues of race,
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African enslavement, and colonialism, it was identity politics. When non-BIPOC take up these issues, it becomes innovative academic resesarch. If these issues weren't centered in your dissertation or in your first publication then you're 2/
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engaged in performative exploitation for academic currency. Trust me, we see you. Whether it's men writing romance for $$ or whiteness discovering "anti-Blackness" as a badge: we "see" what you're doing. Know your "street cred" is zero. 3/
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Replying to @dorothyk98
I'm tired of this, on so many levels and in so many ways. I probably should have remained in exile.
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Hugs. Also, there are more of us who will continue to point this out. The white academic racist appropriation, Columbusing, eliding, erasure, etc.
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