[Linganth] It turns out that Jane Hill is white(!)

[galey modan]

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.

Galey

2015-01-28 12:55 GMT-05:00 Marcia Farr <farrmarcia at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Bonnie Urciuoli <burciuol at hamilton.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Racism can be problematic for everyone -- who knew?
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:17 AM, PAUL B Garrett <pgarrett at temple.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
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>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/27/fox-news-white-racism_n_6557540.html
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