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Deadric T. Williams
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Deadric T. Williams
@doc_thoughts
Associate Professor of Sociology |
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Joined July 2010
Saying "It's not race; it's class" is the academic version of all lives matter.- People love advocating for "diversity" until "diversity" starts to critique and make recommendations for change.
- When are we gonna start talking about them "overserved" communities?
- Predominately White institutions are STRUCTURED to be predominately White institutions. Your diversity efforts don't work because they are not supposed to.
- Not having to understand how whiteness works is how whiteness works.
- Today I was notified that I earned early promotion to Associate Professor with tenure.
- Research on Black families is considered "race research" but your dataset with 50-leven white respondents is just "research". This is how whiteness gets rendered invisible.
- In 2022, can yall start supporting your POC colleagues during the meeting and not waiting until after the meeting? Make your support public!
- Americans' ahistorical understanding of the US' racist history runs so deep that being historically accurate will have people believing you're a conspiracy theorist.
- All the grad students I ever went to grad school with and said I talked about race too much owe me a damn apology.
- Racism is not about skin color. Racism is about having the POWER to make skin color salient for the purpose of unequally distributing resources and opportunities.
- People racialized as White live, work, and play in predominately White spaces almost their entire life. Then get into leadership positions tasked to make work spaces less White. 1/2
- My biggest fear is sociology paying more attention to identity (race, gender, class) and not the structures (white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism) that make identities salient in the first place.
