You see something absurd. You hear something absurd. You read something absurd = Yeah,TNTG. Posts tagged higher education.
“ All economic indicators, higher education admissions’ practices, and corporate and law firm figures show that when it comes to leveling the playing field in the past 30 years, white women—not black men, black women or other persons of color—have gained the most ground.
The University of Texas at Austin will make race-related news Oct. 10 when the Supreme Court hears arguments about theconstitutionality of its affirmative action policy. But this week, reports of possible hate crimes on campus have put the school’s students of color in the spotlight in a way that’s alarming regardless of one’s views about the value of a diverse campus and whether race should be considered in admissions.
Tuesday evening, UT students marched in protest of what they say are racially motivated “bleach bomb” attacks, in which balloons full of bleach are hurled at black, Latino and Asian members of the college community. (Read More)
“ For Black intellectuals, the bourgeois model of intellectual activity is problematic. On the one hand, the racist heritage-aspects of the exclusionary and repressive effects of white academic institutions and humanistic scholarship-puts Black intellectuals on the defensive: There is always the need to assert and defend the humanity of Black people, including their ability and capacity to reason logically, think coherently and write lucidly. The weight of this inescapable burden for Black students in the white academy has often determined the content and character of Black intellectual activity.
— Cornel West (via wretchedoftheearth)
“Poetic Stickup: Put the Financial Aid in the Bag” by Carvens Lissant
She paraphrased this in a colloquium at my school a few months ago. I was stunned. I don’t know if I was prepared to watch a person who had received institutional validation, say out loud, THIS ISN’T the only kind of validation that I am invested in, in fact I am invested in creating other communities, communities comprised of historically erased and marginalized people that I am accountable to.
I was stunned, and in that moment, a fleeting moment I felt safe, down to my bone marrow.
