“Why Me?”– Questions of Racial Equity and Institutional Racism in Academia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21665677 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shirley Anne Tate (0000-0003-3060-9880, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Pages | 185-192 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1206-0143 • E-ISSN: 1916-0194 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/topia-2020-0007 |
| OpenAlex | W4200566822 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Beginning with the necessary question “Why me?,” I look at a system which bars BIPOC bodies and theory. In her open letter to the US Black Studies academic community, Sylvia Wynter (1994 ) spoke about the problem of “no human involved” (“NHI”) in the policing and incarceration of Black bodies as being pertinent for how Black studies was positioned institutionally. This same white supremacist governance and surveillance “NHI” exists in universities on both sides of the Atlantic. There is something very wrong with the system of which I am a part that persistently and consistently bars BIPOC bodies and theory and only avails our presence and thought a marginal position on the proviso that the status quo of whiteliness ( Yancy 2008 ) is not disturbed. Nothing really changes in terms of anti-BIPOC racism. Rather, it remains strangely the white supremacist (settler) colonial same within Canadian race-evasive multiculturalism and UK ‘post-race’ racism
Corporate governance · Criminology · Epistemology · Institutional racism · Management · Multiculturalism · Nothing · Political science · Racism · Sociology · Status quo · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Race, History, and American Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |