/sci/ - Science & Math

You know, I was going to complain about this being yet another low-effort thread but I'm happy we're at least graduating from twitter threads to low-impact journal threads

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>>14623692
College is overrated

>>14623692
What mindbending arguments do they bring up to justify how this isn't the most racist thing since segregation laws?
I mean how is using skin color to characterize what's bad not running against their own mantras?

>It's just a couple of undergrads in a couple of departments at a couple of schools. Nothing to worry about.

>>14623692
>take physics class at state university in the U.S.
>not one fucking professor speaks unaccented English
>all explanations are impossible to understand
>indians, russians, chinese, literally any race or creed other than ones that have English as a first language
>"The inherent whiteness of Physics is oppressing BIPOC!"

>>14623837
Yes, yes.
It's outlet for their racial insecurity/racism.

We need a better mechanism for weeding these idiots out or preventing their ascendance to authority.

>>14623692
>let's see paul allen's interpretive dance therapy publication

>>14623692
why did you censor the names dumbfuck
it takes literally three seconds to search the title and find the paper

>>14623692
Ever since my phone vibrated with the New York Times death toll notification of COVID-19 early in the pandemic, I have been seeking solace in the wonder of physics in my teaching and interactions with students. The world keeps me on edge as racist violence and systemic injustice abound (see, e.g., Francisco 2018), while the phone notifications attest to an ongoing pandemic that has disproportionately impacted people of color, particularly Black and Indigenous folks. The vibrations that remind me of the many people dying of injustice and the pandemic weigh on me, especially as someone in the positions of privilege that come with being white and holding the shelter of a steady job. As we often hear, "white people have work to do."

As I think about ways to work on my whiteness through my scholarship, a colleague of mine suggested I "think about whiteness as an invisible design flaw" (Jacobs 2019, as cited in Cor-Kinoki 2017, 19). That statement has guided much of my research that has explored social power. Jacobs (2019) was not suggesting that whiteness is an incidental feature that shows up in society, rather that it is a thoroughly designed system of social organization.6 In this case, whiteness functions like plumbing: a designed yet invisible feature of our lives that is regularly interacting with and shaping our experience. In this view, the findings of research within Critical Whiteness Studies indicate "a need to analyze specifically how race is advantageously made to operate and to reproduce white supremacy, particularly via cycles of ignorance and invisibility" (Collins 2008, 81).

>>14624025
In outlining our intention in writing this critical, White fragility is a book and a associated theoretical perspectives, Movement for Black Lives (2016, 4) say, "We are talking about power. We are talking about white supremacy as a far-reaching system, one which is structurally racism." The termstructural racism is key in understanding what my colleagues and I refer to when we talk about tackling racism. Structural racism is "a system of discrimination over time . . . The outcomes of racism, such as unequal education outcomes, higher poverty rates, higher unemployment, health and housing disparities, etc. . . . can often be located in the existing political and economic structures of the U.S. or a given state or community. These structures continually marginalize and demote people of color"7 (Center for MultiCultural Democracy 2016). It is clear in your Facebook feed or in the news that the system of white supremacy is entrenched in this country, and that has played out in academia and society at large as racial violence. It has been shown repeatedly that violence bears directly on academic achievements of students (see, e.g., García 2015).

>>14624031
The academic realm is real and can be directly tied to an individual experience of the world and the world around them. Here, the materials are real and an individual has direct agency within the interacting systems to shape their experience and those of their peers (Wells 2013).The absence of equitable educational outcomes and the cycle of ignorance in regard to systemic racism has been discussed at least as far back as Frances C. Harper’s short story "Two Offers" ( Harper 1859) and recently in Paolo Freire's critical pedagogy where Freire (1993) proposed "the students' misunderstanding of the role of 'teacher' [as] the result of having been taught with the 'banking concept of education,' as it had been employed in the United States, where the individual learns passively by absorbing information instead of always focusing on upping her game, always developing her own problems and committing to their resolution" (87). And while my individual experience of racism has nothing on the experiences of others, I am impacted by systemic oppression as I find myself in the center of whiteness (Collins 2008) and have all the power that comes with that. Racism was a concept that I was introduced to early in my schooling (see, e.g., chapter 1 in Jain and Henry 2007) but one which was not properly introduced when I initially took physics, until I took a physics class with a Black instructor in my sophomore year of college. Without a proper understanding of race and the systems of oppression that "operate" to reproduce white supremacy and marginalization within society, I truly felt like I hadn’t learned physics.

>>14624033
Behind my behavior is a set of assumptions, and some of those assumptions that guide my behavior come from my location within whiteness and what I have come to understand about whiteness through my scholarship. Collins (2008) describes whiteness as "the seat of power" (5), where the organization of social life is in terms of a center and margins that are based on dominance and control. There is a term for this definition of whiteness within Sentences and a sense of belonging in America. I will switch here. Marginalization refers to "the process by which certain groups are socially excluded by not being included in criteria such as obligations, expectations, and values" (Cohen 2017, 63); this is qualified by marginalization as "being forced to occupy the lowest levels of a social hierarchy, made to feel less than by the dominant group" (Cohen 1977, 87).In the diagrams that I keep updated in my head8 of how systems of oppression like racism or sexism work,9 I see a pole centered on the term , white, which I understand to mean "the superior letter" (Horsman 1996, 103), and consider this to be the pole that is most privileged and best positioned for success.

>>14624037
Not sure of the source but i found it when looking for this image.

>>14624033
>.The absence of equitable educational outcomes and the cycle of ignorance in regard to systemic racism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBrRFS1R2J8

>>14623692
Siegefags were right