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alexseanchai) wrote2015-10-13 04:10 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2015-10-13 04:10 pm
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Andrea Smith has about as much right to call herself Cherokee as Rachel Dolezal does to call herself black.
Andrea Smith is assigned reading in one of my classes for like the fourth time in my college career. (Same piece, too. Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy.) I'm wondering if maybe I should try to get my university to, if not take her off all the curricula for fraudulently presenting herself as Native, at least asterisk her name in all the syllabi. (Because you know the point of putting her in the curricula was to get a WoC perspective on the issue, and it turns out she's...not a WoC.)
Andrea Smith is assigned reading in one of my classes for like the fourth time in my college career. (Same piece, too. Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy.) I'm wondering if maybe I should try to get my university to, if not take her off all the curricula for fraudulently presenting herself as Native, at least asterisk her name in all the syllabi. (Because you know the point of putting her in the curricula was to get a WoC perspective on the issue, and it turns out she's...not a WoC.)