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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Professors Want Academia To Stop Citing Straight White Men

If you're writing an academic paper on any given subject, you need to do your research and get your facts straight. No, I don't mean about the topic you're writing about. You see, you're not a good academic if you don't discover who the authors referenced in your footnotes like to sleep with.

Think I'm making this up? I wish:

Geographers Carrie Mott and Daniel Cockayne argued in a recent paper that [citing the work of straight, white men] 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.

These two individuals actually want people to count up their citations, and then to calculate if "too many" reference white men who like women.

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4 comments:

Jim said...


You have to wonder how much these academics have paid out in tuition and all to be led to such a level of utter stupidity.
I don't think that you can be this dumb naturally.

Anonymous said...

HOW will they know????

Rebel Without a Clue said...

I have never once considered the gender or sexual orientation of any author that I have cited in any paper that I've ever written in college. Why is this even a topic? It goes to show you that some people have far too much time on their hands. So much time, accompanied by a cushy lifestyle, that they have time to conjugate theories on non-sensical BS!!!

Anonymous said...

Liberal airhead professors need to be eliminated as they are destroying our students and higher education systems...Actually these people are crazy at best.