Racialized emotions: Outraged SJW sociologists who believe that any mention or discussion of AA hiring practices is tantamount to committing "violence against PoC scholars!"
Help please: EBS Presidential Address
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Fernandez, Rivera, and Ocasio are white and graduated from elite US schools.
Whoever wrote this (a) has seen these ppl physically but knows nothing about their backgrounds; & (b) is confusing the issue. The question was whether black & latino scholars have to be so focused on race.
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Bschool prof here. It’s interesting that there are several black and Latinx faculty (who are sociologists or soc-oriented) are quite strong and none specialize in race. Thinking of Phillips, Reagans, Fernandez, Rivera, Ocasio, and (not tenured yet but will be soon) Sterling.
That's a bit of a biased sample though. You're only listing b-school folks at elite places, and I think you might also be hard-pressed to name white faculty in elite b-schools who specialize in race.
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Sure, but there are a lot of subfields of sociology besides org soc and econ soc (which are partly in elite bschools). Why don't (any?) black & Latinx sociologists work in those subfield?
P.S. It's not clear it's healthy for *any* sociologists to *specialize* in race. For one thing, this tends to mean "race in America" (if EBS's screed makes any sense at all, it makes sense only in the US) and it leads to a parochialism that is a poor foundation for developing general insight. (Note that when those bschool folks do study race, it tends to be as a way to get at broader social processes)
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In all fairness, it's right on point. We in sociology like our minorities to do mesearch and be SJW grievance mongers. That's who we overwhelmingly hire and elect to be president. When we create a diversity line, we always advertise for race specialists. Why do you think that is?
The fact that not all minorities do mesearch doesn't mean the trend is non-existent.
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I have family in Puerto Rico and am embarrassed that he's Puerto Rican.
I couldn't believe he didn't even mention Hurricane Maria in passing, in the first presidential address by a Puerto Rican, at the first ASA after the hurricane. There was a lot to say about how to study the social effects of the hurricane, so it felt like such a lost opportunity.