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queer medievalist researching the global origins of ideas about sex/race in medieval English lit. helicopter parent to a kitty. phd. (he/him). views my own.

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    Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 29 Nov 2020

    I just finished Dr. Sekile Nzinga's *Lean Semesters*, and I already want to recommend it to all academics. @m_sekile uses interviews & sociological study to show how academia contributes to the marginalization of Black women. #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitterpic.twitter.com/hcINBQusY5

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      2. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 29 Nov 2020

        The book shows clearly how our discussions of adjuncts & precarious academic labor ignore race. She reminds us that the fact that white voices dominate discussions of precarious labor and adjunctification illustrates how much Black women are shut out of these discussions.pic.twitter.com/kQyaNUGL0b

        Screenshot of book reads "The lack of scholarship and activism surrounding these issues is both ironic and expected given the racialized shame, economic insecurity, and the pressure on academics to “perform” a middle-class status, regardless of the more likely working-class or poor realities facing many contingent scholars (Maisto 2013). In short, it is hardly surprising that there is a paucity of literature on highly educated, working-class Black women, given that those who would be most likely to write about these issues are precisely those facing the most barriers to academic writing and publication."
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      3. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 29 Nov 2020

        The countless op-eds and twitter threads on adjunct and NTT labor by white academics reflect their own increased access to the social capital that allows them to divulge their economic status, as well as their increased access to publication venues that Black women often lack.

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      4. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 29 Nov 2020

        She quotes the damning 2010 AFT report that found that 73% of minority faculty are contingent faculty. Yet popular or scholarly accounts of academic precarity barely discuss their precarious position, especially that of Black women, instead focusing on white contingent faculty.pic.twitter.com/CiutrFpcUv

        Screenshot reads "According to the American Federation of Teachers (AFT 2010), “underrepresented racial and ethnic groups are even more likely to be relegated to contingent positions; only 10.4 percent of all faculty positions are held by underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, and of these, 7.6 percent—or 73 percent of the total minority faculty population—are contingent positions.” "
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      5. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 29 Nov 2020

        She critiques the very idea that there is a sudden crisis in academic precarity and NTT labor. The issue, she says, following Felicia Carr, is that the "negative effects of corporatization" long experienced by POC (especially WOC academics) have finally begun affecting white men.pic.twitter.com/YL6Iz33Yc9

        Screenshot reads "If, as I argue, women faculty and faculty of color have long struggled with issues of insecurity, contingency, and disposability in academia, one may well ask what accounts for the sense of sudden “crisis” running through so much recent commentary and critique. I agree with Felicia Carr (2001), who has argued that the recent groundswell of mobilization within adjunct labor activism can be attributed to the negative effects of corporatization finally reaching men, particularly white, highly educated men"
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      6. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 29 Nov 2020

        She chronicles the wildly disproportionate way that student debt, contingent status, and academic barriers affect Black women. Black women carry more student loan debt than other groups and receive less funding in their PhD and MA programs.pic.twitter.com/Ci91YIZvHT

        Screenshot reads "rates. Black women—the least likely group to be funded by their institutions for their graduate education and, in turn, the most likely to fund their education privately—face the highest educational loan debt at both the undergraduate and graduate level of any group in the nation."
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      7. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 29 Nov 2020

        Black women are far less represented among tenured faculty than white women, for instance. In 2009, for instance, there were 2,331 Black female full professors, compared to 49,650 white female full profs.pic.twitter.com/VQ5pebsmL6

        Screenshot reads "The US Department of Education reported that in 2009, although there were 6,411 Black female assistant professors employed at colleges and universities in the United States, there were only 2,331 Black female faculty who were full professors. Conversely, there were 49,650 white female faculty members working as full professors during the same time period (2011, table 315.20)"
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      8. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 29 Nov 2020

        Gender on its own seemingly accounts for little variation between how much contingent faculty are paid, while racial differences are stark, particularly for Black contingent faculty and grad students.

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      9. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 29 Nov 2020

        In 2012, women reported a median per-course salary of $2,700, & men $2,780. The median for Latino respondents was $2,500 and $2,925 for Asian or Pacific Islander respondents. Black contingent faculty earned a median per-course salary of $2,083.pic.twitter.com/thCJce29OF

        Screenshot reads "the Coalition on the Academic Workforce’s (2012) data indicate only a slight variation in median pay by gender: women reported a median per-course salary of $2,700, and men reported earning slightly more, at a median per-course salary of $2,780. Race or ethnic breakdowns suggest that part-time faculty respondents who identified as Black (not of Hispanic origin) earn considerably less than other racial and ethnic groups, with a median per-course salary of $2,083. The median for Latino respondents was $2,500 and $2,925 for Asian or Pacific Islander respondents.
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      10. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 29 Nov 2020

        In sum, we need to center the voices of Black women in our discussion of academic precarity. We need to recognize how often articles on adjuncts and other contingent faculty simply fail to discuss race.

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      11. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 29 Nov 2020

        And we need to recognize Dr. Nzinga's central point: the university is not an equalizer, but instead *produces* inequality, especially for Black women.pic.twitter.com/coMo6yWpBT

        Screenshot reads "My central argument is that, far from being a site generative of equality and opportunity, the university—whether private, for-profit, or not-for-profit—currently operates as a hyper-producer of inequity for marginalized populations, particularly academic women of color"
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      12. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 29 Nov 2020

        Go out and buy her book. I blew through it in five days, a rarity for me. It's clear, smart, and reframes so much of the conversation.https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/lean-semesters#:~:text=In%20Lean%20Semesters%2C%20Sekile%20M,and%20their%20potential%20en%20masse …

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