<div dir="ltr">Well put. It's the same dynamic as what happens every time any politician with an even remotely progressive message tries to explain it to the general public. The problem is, we as academics value accurate explanation. But the likes of Fox or of shall we say certain political operatives are not remotely invested in any notion of accurate explanation -- for them reference is deployed entirely in service to creating sharp political lines and cementing their demographic. I do not know how to fight any of that directly.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:15 AM, galey modan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmodan@gmail.com" target="_blank">gmodan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It's not just a question of reaching out 'beyond the academy', though -- this story was instigated by a college student -- one who didn't think there was anything strange about complaining about book titles of books she hadn't read for a course she didn't take. And there is a larger, more general problem when a major news network thinks it reasonable to cook up a story about book titles in which the actual content of the books is deemed too irrelevant to address. Not sure what it would take to instigate the monumental cultural shift in attitudes towards the academy that would be needed for such stories to be universally deemed ridiculous.<div><br></div><div>Galey</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-01-28 12:55 GMT-05:00 Marcia Farr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:farrmarcia@gmail.com" target="_blank">farrmarcia@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">What this also shows, unfortunately, is how wide the gap is between most "white" people and academics. We have to continue to document and analyze as we do, but we also should be working on explaining our work to reach these people, or things will never change. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Bonnie Urciuoli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:burciuol@hamilton.edu" target="_blank">burciuol@hamilton.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Racism can be problematic for everyone -- who knew?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:17 AM, PAUL B Garrett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pgarrett@temple.edu" target="_blank">pgarrett@temple.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,102)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,102)"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/27/fox-news-white-racism_n_6557540.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/27/fox-news-white-racism_n_6557540.html</a> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,102)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,102)"><br></div>
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