College math a ‘white, cisheteropatriarchal space,’ Vanderbilt professor says at major conference

The College Fix ^ | 20 Jan 2023 | Chloe Ezzo

[Rummyfan]

An education professor delivered a lecture in early January at a major mathematician meeting that described college math as “white” and “cisheteropatriarchal.”

“Undergraduate Mathematics Education as a White, Cisheteropatriarchal Space and Opportunities for Structural Disruption to Advance Queer of Color Justice” was the full title of the lecture given by Luis Leyva, associate professor of mathematics education at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University.

Leyva delivered the lecture Jan. 4 in Boston at the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2023. The summit is the “largest mathematics gathering in the world,” according to its website.

“Cisheteropatriarchal” is a term in ethnic studies referring to “a system of male, straight, conforming-to-assigned sex system power,” teacher and curriculum designer R. Tolteka Cuauhtin told the Los Angeles Times in a 2019 article.

Leyva’s “findings depict[ed] how Black, Latin*, and Asian QT [queer and transgender] students’ narratives of experience reflect forms of intersectionality, or instances of oppression and resistance,” according to his lecture’s abstract.

The Fix left Leyva a voicemail asking for a comment or brief interview on the lecture via email or phone call. His email address was not publicly available. Leyva did not return the call.

[Ford4000]

Education degrees have been garbage for a long time and ought not to be a requirement to work in K-12.

[GingisK]

Well, blacks weren’t “First in Flight”, were they?

[dfwgator]

You obviously never saw this...

The Old Negro Space Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8

[GingisK]

That was hilarious, and well done.

There were, in fact, almost no blacks in the space program. I never saw a black person at the Marshall Space Flight Center even as late as 1973,4. They weren't even in the badging office. I know mathematicians who worked in Von Braun's building on his staff; and, they tell me the story of the three black women who saved Apollo is a complete farce. If you think about it, where would they have gone to school in those times? Huntsville is in Alabama. Who would have hired black women into such a position?

Those times were just not good for blacks. In this age, very few blacks gravitate to the technologies. I have worked with only three black software engineers in my fifty year career. They were quite good at their job, and were not the typical angry black man. Now women are becoming more numerous in the technical work force.

[GingisK]

That is very perceptive. Universities are the source of the rot in schools; and, education is the mother lode of nonsense.