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

[Bonnie Urciuoli]

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.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:15 AM, galey modan <gmodan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/27/fox-news-white-racism_n_6557540.html
>>>>
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>> Marcia Elizabeth Farr
>> Professor Emerita
>> The Ohio State University
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