Magazine article
Racism's Toll
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol.62(7), p.B20
10/11/2015
Abstract
A friend, another African-American female faculty member, called me to share her frustration about an idea she had posed to her colleagues that was not validated until a male colleague repeated it. The killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.; the fact that the police officer who shot him was not indicted; a 7-foot-tall effigy of a Ku Klux Klan member erected on my own campus -- it was an art project, but terrifying nonetheless; Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity's racist chant at the University of Oklahoma; the racially motivated killing of nine black men and women in a Charleston, S.C., church. [...]in third-grade language, I explained to him that his white friends were conditioned to view him through their distorted understanding of race and whatever signified, to them, their racial privilege in order to make sense of how to fit him into their group. Sherry K. Watt is an associate professor of educational policy and leadership studies at the University of Iowa.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Racism's Toll
- Creators
- Sherry K Watt
- Resource Type
- Magazine article
- Publication Details
- The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol.62(7), p.B20
- Publisher
- Chronicle of Higher Education; Washington
- ISSN
- 0009-5982
- eISSN
- 1931-1362
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/11/2015
- Academic Unit
- Educational Policy and Leadership Studies; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984285649102771
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