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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every time I see something like this I am mostly surprised that no one takes issue with the fact that being a heavily "performative" member of some minority is necessary to succeed in academia.  At this point, it is almost rare to see a plain old white person with a tenure track job in Humanities.  It's not about affirmative action, but about the necessity of someone working in a field to have some kind of life narrative to go along with their career and legitimize their interest in the subject and their standing in the community. It should make people wonder how good today's scholarship can be when one has to wear big earrings and long straight hair in order to have one's research on industrial pollution taken seriously.  
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It's not rare at all. Have you been to Brown or seen any of the humanities department faculty web pages? There are very very VERY few Native scholars in academia. It's still extremely white dominated. Give me a break.

-white lady with a humanities PhD[/quote]

NP. Point taken, but 1) The PP did not say that there were many Native scholars in academia. Nor would one expect there to be a large number given the size of the population and their oppression. and 2) How many of the recent tenure track hires in the humanities at schools like Brown and Berkeley are heterosexual cis whites?[/quote]

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