Posted on 07/17/2017 1:22:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Academics and scholars must be mindful about using research done by only straight, white men, according to two scientists who argued that it oppresses diverse voices and bolsters the status of already privileged and established white male scholars.
Geographers Carrie Mott and Daniel Cockayne argued in a recent paper that doing so also perpetuates what they call “white heteromasculinism,” which they defined as a “system of oppression” that benefits only those who are “white, male, able-bodied, economically privileged, heterosexual, and cisgendered.” (Cisgendered describes people whose gender identity matches their birth sex.)
Mott, a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Cockayne, who teaches at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, argued that scholars or researchers disproportionately cite the work of white men, thereby unfairly adding credence to the body of knowledge they offer while ignoring the voices of other groups, like women and black male academics. Although citation seems like a mundane practice, the feminist professors argue that citing someone's work has implications on his or her ability to be hired, get promoted and obtain tenured status, among others.
“This important research has drawn direct attention to the continued underrepresentation and marginalization of women, people of color. … To cite narrowly, to only cite white men … or to only cite established scholars, does a disservice not only to researchers and writers who are othered by white heteromasculinism …," they wrote in the paper published recently in the journal Gender, Place and Culture.
Mott and Cockayne did not immediately respond to questions from The Washington Post, but Mott told Campus Reform last week that they decided to write about citation practices after observing that research done by white men are relied upon more heavily than those done by experts from other backgrounds.
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I think most Jewish people do consider themselves white, although some might not. Mr. Ignatiev is a bit of a loon. He also believes Irish people weren’t white.
I’ll see your cisgender patriach and raise you one proud heteromasculinist!
Kinda like that term, never mind where it came from. FWIW I’m also a proud heterosexist.
;^)
This is beginning to remind me of anti-semitism.
No matter what the titular alma mater, they are all graduates of The Frankfurt School.
Who's gonna pull the the ever growing wagon of "victims" and "lay abouts"?
Perhaps that is because since George Washington Carver and Marie Curie there just haven’t been any woman or minority scientists worth citing.
I am proud to be a fellow alum (Iowa State)
"Othered"... by white male scientists... who simply do their job and increase the base of knowledge for mankind...
So the apparent problem is that white males DO THINGS... and they must stop... for "Social Justice"... or else non-whites and non-males might feel left out.
Un-freaking-real.
You don’t like your antisemitic anti-Israel activist buddy?
‘Cisgendered’ is just a made-up derogatory term for ‘normal’.
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