When the academic circles attack: protecting black femininity from institutional harm
author:
(1) Tiffany N. Young, Graduate Studies Center, New York City University, New York, New York 10016, USA ([email protected]).
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Abstract and 1 introduction
2. Early life
3. White as an institution
4. The triple threat
5. Academic farms field
6. The future is black women
7. Imagination as a tool
8. Imagination through research
9. Imagination by playing
10. Cooperation as an imagination
11. Conclusions and references
5. Academic farms field
Academic circles entered in 2017, immediately after the Trump elections, to disable the violence that was about to attend. I was the mother of a six -month -old black girl. I believed that the academic circles would be the safest, given the focus on academic freedom and speech. What I learned about the academic circles shocked me, but it was placed in the perspective of what I was witnessing in the field of social service work. Academic circles are the belly of the monster. The construction of whiteness, patriarchate, colonialism and maintenance are imagined through academic research, education and practices. Black women’s scientists such as Crenshaw (1991), Collins (2000), Hooks (1994) and Cooper (2014, 2018) talk about the interlocking nature of these repression systems within the academic circles in their grant. My time was in the academic circles open and liberated. I have spent the past seven years moving in the monster of academic circles, trying to see if there is space for me as a black scientist. While you are in academic circles, I realized that merely my existence was a broken policy formed by the regulations and structures of American academic institutions that depict the theory of dominant knowledge, learn and practice. My humanity does not protect the whiteness and is considered a threat to the institution.
Over the course of seven years in academic training, I was personally the subject of multiple complaints of students about the science of teaching assets, clothing and comprehensive behavior. I spent almost every semester in a form of mediation that the university imposed on solving students’ conflicts with me. As a member of the assistant faculty, I was recorded without permission, and the sound was used by lawyers and university officials without my knowledge. I am not perfect. The academic circles were a place where I feel I am facing a publication of psychological and emotional survey without any concrete and meaningful result. For example, when I interrogate complaints against me and call what I like to call “Dean Court”, they were always in neglect in terms of feelings or direct and frankly in my thinking of power. In the academic year, I had to employ a lawyer to support my movement in the academic institutional forest, and I was summoned to multiple hearings without actual physical solution. White excellence values continue to persecute, subjugate, survey, exploitation, police and justify violence against black women (Collins 2000; Rodgers 2021; Spence and Perlow 2018). Rodgers (2021) emphasizes how black women are harmful to academic circles as public and accurate experiences of discrimination, including silencing the voices of black and topical women. The institutional authority tried to silence me several times. In most of the mediation I attended, when I asked the goal of the meeting, the answer was always a solution. When I asked for examples of potential decisions, I was told that the goal is to provide space for the student who was almost always white to address the troubled feelings and safety, and to harm feelings with the principles of teaching. I am a professor, not a doctor. My job is not to fix feelings is education. In some way, at the social work school where I do most of my education, we created an area where work practitioners and doctors in future social work will keep their feelings as facts and their weapons to hold black women as hostages. We are not Mamic. Get another person to do so!
Today, in 2024, I am deeply anxious with the field of social work and academic circles in general. We have come to what I hope to be the peak of extreme violence and pure brutality. I am directly witnessing what my aunt and teachers told me all the time. In 2024, thousands of children were killed around the world, and even recognizing it in this paper may be to break an institutional policy in one of the many institutions that I belong to. There is a silent gag but it is very loud within the academic circles that does not say anything about what we are witnessing in front of our eyes in 2024. Academic freedom has been eliminated. Institutional policies have been armed to reject violence, which protects imperialism. However, if we recognize severe violence and shock, we may risk our professions and ways to live. We have entered what I now call “the brutality of the white.” This phrase relates to the way in which the whiteness participates in extreme violence and the demands that we all stand by our works. The faculty of students in the campus because of the protests because they have different opinions. On the production and help of legitimate feelings and opinions as a reality?
GEM Use your testimony as a shield. It is okay to have many (small) jobs. We often have five to six jobs in one institution. One institution should not have 100 % control of your life. They can provide you with benefits. But the operation of the Foundation should not be dependent on stripping you of humanity.
