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Scholars spend $500K in taxpayer funds to deconstruct whiteness in physics
The College Fix ^ | JUNE 10, 2022 | DANIEL NUCCIO

Posted on 06/12/2022 3:22:30 PM PDT by Mount Athos

Deconstructing whiteness in an introductory physics classroom may seem like a nonsensical goal, but according to a pair of critical whiteness scholars from Seattle Pacific University, this endeavor is actually an important step toward the larger undertaking of freeing students and professors alike from the weighty fetters of whiteness.

Funded through a $495,847 National Science Foundation grant, researchers Amy Robertson and W. Tali Hairston aim “to develop a knowledge base that could lead to awareness of how power relations may be embedded in the way physics is taught and learned.”

The two record introductory physics classes and interview participants, then analyze them using a critical whiteness theory lens “to show how privilege operates in undergraduate physics teaching and learning.”

Hairston and two of his colleagues recorded nearly two weeks of footage from introductory physics classes at three universities, then analyzed a single, seemingly uneventful episode in which a group of students completed a hands-on, in-class assignment dealing with mass and acceleration.

The scholars carefully evaluated the footage for instances of marginalization through displays of “certain characteristics that U.S. culture typically associates with white masculine behavior, including control, independence, and decisiveness.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1619project; astronomy; bigotry; blackkk; blackliesmanors; blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; blm; criticalracetheory; crt; physics; racism; science; stringtheory
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1 posted on 06/12/2022 3:22:30 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

Schroedinger’s cat is gay and black?


2 posted on 06/12/2022 3:24:55 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: Mount Athos

The long far end of the “Bell Curve” is telling those of us on the left and apex what intelligence we possess. SMH...


3 posted on 06/12/2022 3:25:11 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Mount Athos

The ongoing communist purge has no limits or boundaries...


4 posted on 06/12/2022 3:25:57 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: Mount Athos

Jesus really needs to come back soon.


5 posted on 06/12/2022 3:26:40 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Mount Athos

Ghetto and math don’t mix.


6 posted on 06/12/2022 3:28:17 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: Mount Athos

Wow, who could possibly see independence and decisiveness as positive traits!


7 posted on 06/12/2022 3:28:25 PM PDT by cbvanb
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To: Mount Athos
... the weighty fetters of whiteness.

That is blatantly racist and it is a crime for government to spend tax dollars promoting such bigotry.

8 posted on 06/12/2022 3:28:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (Shall not be infringed!)
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To: Mount Athos

“...to develop a knowledge base that could lead to awareness of how power relations may be embedded in the way physics is taught and learned...”

Ample proof that these researchers are strangers to the right side of the Bell Curve.


9 posted on 06/12/2022 3:29:01 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Mount Athos

The problematic premise is that White = Bad and that, therefor, everything White must be destroyed.


10 posted on 06/12/2022 3:33:14 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: metmom

Amen


11 posted on 06/12/2022 3:34:58 PM PDT by dkGba
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To: Mount Athos

The grift has no bounds


12 posted on 06/12/2022 3:35:43 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Mount Athos

You cannot fool Mother Nature.


13 posted on 06/12/2022 3:38:23 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Mount Athos
a pair of critical whiteness scholars ...

... Funded through a $495,847 National Science Foundation grant


"I see ..." said the blind man ...
14 posted on 06/12/2022 3:38:47 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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a knowledge base that could lead to awareness of how power relations may be embedded in the way physics is taught and learned.

I have a PhD in physics. The way I learned physics is by getting textbooks, reading the explanations and then diligently solving the problems, hours a day, every day of the week for months and years. It's how all of the really good physicists I know learned physics. It's not a rote-memory subject, like say leftist political philosophy or the history of minority oppression.

BTW that is how Lincoln learned law.

15 posted on 06/12/2022 3:40:11 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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critical whiteness scholars say is actually an important step toward the larger undertaking of freeing students and professors alike from the weighty fetters of whiteness.

Man, these mental cases really hate white folk.

16 posted on 06/12/2022 3:43:20 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Mount Athos

“Critical Whiteness Scholar” = position that will not exist after the collapse

Can they cook? Change a flat tire? Oh, h3ll no!


17 posted on 06/12/2022 3:43:45 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: metmom

Yes. Maranatha!


18 posted on 06/12/2022 3:51:31 PM PDT by Old Yeller (A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.l)
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To: Mount Athos

New Physics - This is the ball, and this is the hoop…


19 posted on 06/12/2022 3:54:42 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Disambiguator

Funded through a $495,847 National Science Foundation grant. Money down a rat hole. The Bell Curve doesn’t lie. You can be in the top five percent, have an IQ of 130-140, and still not compete even with mediocre physics minds.


20 posted on 06/12/2022 3:54:52 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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