Article image Posted on 04/26/2022 12:40:54 PM PDT by Red Badger
"Observing Whiteness in Introductory Physics: A Case Study" was published last month in Physical Review Physics Education Research.
"Whiteboards can be racist like how housing, employment, and the judicial systems were found to contain racist practices," the co-author told Campus Reform.
Stevie Gibbs '23 | Arkansas Campus Correspondent Monday, April 25, 2022 1:44 PM
Did a recent physics study argue that whiteboards are racist?
"Observing Whiteness in Introductory Physics: A Case Study" was published last month in Physical Review Physics Education Research. The study observed three students as they worked to solve a physics problem and analyzed how "whiteness" is present in academia.
The study found that whiteboards can have racist undertones and perpetuate whiteness.
Seattle Pacific University Research Associate Professor of Physics Amy Roberton served as lead author. W. Tali Hairston, director of community organizing, advocacy, and development at Seattle Presbytery, served as the co-author.
Hairston told Campus Reform that although whiteboards "are not inherently racist," the common classroom object can perpetuate racism.
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"Whiteboards can be racist like how housing, employment, and the judicial systems were found to contain racist practices," Hairston stated.
According to the authors, the role of the whiteboard as being the center of attention in classroom learning contributes to its role in student discussion and attention.
"Our findings support other studies that have found the study of physics to include racism and sexism," Hairston added.
"Whiteboards display written information for public consumption; they draw attention to themselves and in this case support the centering of an abstract representation and the person standing next to it, presenting," the authors argue in the study. "They collaborate with white organizational culture, where ideas and experiences gain value (become more central) when written down.”
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According to this argument, when students use a whiteboard to display work, they are drawing attention to themselves that may portray characteristics of "whiteness."
University of Arkansas student Whitney Hines, who is currently enrolled in physics courses, told Campus Reform that "science is not meant to be subjective."
"I do not see how an objective topic can be seen as racist," Hines added.
Campus Reform contacted Seattle Pacific University and Roberton for comment. This article will be updated accordingly.
The Whiteboard Jungle. Never underestimate the ability of the perpetually aggrieved to find something to be offended about.
So a blackboard with yellow chalk is racist against africa and asia...
Do I have this right? Can I have my blue checkmark now?
Because everything developed by whites is irredeemably tainted by white racism and stacks the deck against non-whites, maybe it is time for a complete resegregation of all races — in housing, schooling, employment, everything. When each race is running its own show its own way, things should turn out fine.
Tires should be white...not black.
Does not take much extension of that logic to say that all books published on white paper are raciest.
“...that all books published on white paper are raciest.”
Like 50 Shades of Grey?...
Ugly....
Barry White, Billy White-shoes, jus sayin.
Very. I’m not sure if it’s real or not.
It's time to out this guy as a closet racist. He may pronounce his name as "Whitney", but that's actually a hidden dog-whistle for "Whitey" ...
[sarcasm]
LOL
You want civilization? You want organizational structure? You listen to people that invented the wheel.
I couldn’t help myself. :)
Years ago a black guy on the college newspaper wrote such an opinion piece.
It was then I realized blacks really aren't concerned about these issues. They do this to provoke White people and to keep them off guard by incessantly questioning everything.
It's a game blacks play to tick-off and intimidate Whitey and make White people afraid to say anything lest they be called racists.
The only thing racist is the people who think everything is about race.
How about the racism in day and night? Do something about that. /s
Racism is baked into education.
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