Was not aware of the Medici Effect (reminds me of scholarly Andalusia). Very much needed in my discipline because as an educator who has also chosen to not check boxes, both physical and metaphorical, the entrenched paradigmatic DEI strictures have reduced my ability to research, present, and publish in the last 4 years. For a renaissanc…
Was not aware of the Medici Effect (reminds me of scholarly Andalusia). Very much needed in my discipline because as an educator who has also chosen to not check boxes, both physical and metaphorical, the entrenched paradigmatic DEI strictures have reduced my ability to research, present, and publish in the last 4 years. For a renaissance to occur, efforts must strike at a prominent CRT tenet called convergence theory, that white people will only participate if they first benefit from lifting up minority races. This subtractive, zero-sum tenet intentionally defines race and gender roles in a disempowering monolithic way. Erec Smith addresses just how disempowering antiracism is in this way to writing students.
As for renaissance, I support any efforts to redefine diversity and reserve the right for me to define the role, purpose, and value of my identity without censure. In my attempts to navigate and mitigate that risk and remain silent, I find I must call for faculty right to their own language (FRTOL) like my discipline’s prior call for students (SRTOL 1974). It will reform and enhance what is acceptable speech and thought and research, increasing diverse viewpoints in my discipline (rhetoric and composition studies).
Was not aware of the Medici Effect (reminds me of scholarly Andalusia). Very much needed in my discipline because as an educator who has also chosen to not check boxes, both physical and metaphorical, the entrenched paradigmatic DEI strictures have reduced my ability to research, present, and publish in the last 4 years. For a renaissance to occur, efforts must strike at a prominent CRT tenet called convergence theory, that white people will only participate if they first benefit from lifting up minority races. This subtractive, zero-sum tenet intentionally defines race and gender roles in a disempowering monolithic way. Erec Smith addresses just how disempowering antiracism is in this way to writing students.
As for renaissance, I support any efforts to redefine diversity and reserve the right for me to define the role, purpose, and value of my identity without censure. In my attempts to navigate and mitigate that risk and remain silent, I find I must call for faculty right to their own language (FRTOL) like my discipline’s prior call for students (SRTOL 1974). It will reform and enhance what is acceptable speech and thought and research, increasing diverse viewpoints in my discipline (rhetoric and composition studies).