…from WoC PhD. Excerpting: “When an atmosphere of trust exists in a department, students are more likely to come to class prepared to learn and to take accountability for their actions, conflicts are likely to be at a minimum, and real problems that arise can be handled with maturity and proper sanction. Without trust, everything … More A Very Nice Post
Da Whiteman has a manipulation technique which I boiled down today while driving to Angola. I My ceramics T.A., last week: Z, the professor does not like you or your work but is afraid to confront you about these matters, so I must. A relative, somewhat recently: My wife fears your intelligence and this fear … More Relaxing wit’ da Whiteman
I I dreamed last night that I was drowning a baby in a rushing gutter. I was very sorry to do it but I had been given my instructions – the baby or myself – and I had made my choice. It was a compliant, yet resilient baby. It understood it was to be drowned … More Nightmare
WM: Do you think A caused B, which, as we know, is causing C? Do you think we might still be vulnerable to the same error we made when we chose A? Do we need to consider the underlying causes which may have impelled us to choose A? Z: I think A may have been … More Visiting with da Whiteman
On n’avance pas, et ce n’est pas de notre faute. From Another Conflict Theorist: [T]here exists a wealth of information that examines race and gender disparities in the workplace and how they are maintained. Recently, I read a fantastic article about emotional labor and sex segregation entitled, “Women’s Job, Men’s Jobs.” The authors of the … More Pourquoi on n’avance pas
Clearly, race-based scholarships pegged to people of color are not based on notions of racial superiority or innate difference. They are predicated only on the notion that there have been real differences in opportunity on the basis of race, and that these opportunity gaps should be remedied to the greatest extent possible. Secondly, such efforts … More The Manufacturing of White Victimhood
Whiteman: If X [a full professor] applies for Y [administrative job] and is not the chosen candidate, it will destroy his career. Z: Why? He is an Endowed Professor, Chair, and Director. He will not be run out of these positions. If he applies for Y and is not the chosen candidate, can he not … More On Honor Among Men
Whiteman of Reeducation: Z, you must realize you are not a god! Reeducand Z: Gracious. It appears I believe I am a god! The worst of it is, I do not realize that I believe this! I must learn to see that I believe this, and then discard the belief! Savage Z: Whiteman of Reeducation, … More Assertiveness Training
HYPOTHESIS Another difference I have with Reeducation, as well as with popular psychology generally and also much standard advice on how to “strategize” and hedge your bets so as to “succeed,” is that all of these modes of thought involve so much convolution. Simplicity and directness are not allowed, because it is assumed people are … More On Convolution
In my graduate department was a Bright Student who had, furthermore, an excellent situation since she was married to a Nurse. She therefore had no financial worries, roommate worries, or dating worries, and her situation was slated to continue indefinitely: this Nurse, being a Nurse, was in a position to move, when she got an … More On Hiring Women
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