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11 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Mare’s Hair avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2021/06/10/mar… via @Avidly Critical essay on blondness, dark roots, power and the show everyone on my TL keeps talking about? YES PLEASE.
I've only watch The Holiday a million times. And the page references in THICK is just my kind of carrying on.
I read something once about how films signal that a (white) woman has lost her shit, e.g. ponytail and sweatpants = mental breakdown. This read of time and the fading of blonde is both a character study and plot device is something.
This is even more enjoyable because I, of course, don't know what blonde is. LOL

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10 Jun
Next, I'm on to this new paper on how students understand college attainment returns:

Early Cost Realization and College Choice - Haewon Yoon, Yang Yang, Carey K. Morewedge, journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
I know it is true* and that it is a perfectly fine way to situate a paper and get it published. Still, I will always cringe a little at this framing.
Setting up the Battle Royale! LOL (they're actually the same finding, conditioned on selectivity and practical college options but it's still fun.)
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10 Jun
This is very good & very important new research on radicalized orgs and diversity canards.
Diversity Displays and Organizational Messaging: The Case of Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Oneya Okuwobi, Deborwah Faulk, Vincent J. Roscigno, 2021 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
Because "diversity" unilaterally and practically means introducing non-white people into majority white institutions/spaces, I have long been puzzled by HBCUs attempts at branding diversity.
As the authors point out, the issue is that HBCUs *are* the diversity and therefore do not fit into white logics of needing to be diversified. But a lot of resources and capital are attached to "Diversity" programming. How can a Black college procure those resources?
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8 Jun
Considering the freak out about the kids part of this statement, I may need to explicate my draw the obvious implications for same-gender forces intimacy in the classroom.
Inviting students into the intimate details of your marital life, sex life, and yes even parenting is also a problem.
Take a real life example of the white parent to a mixed race child who wanted their minority students to manage their racial anxiety.
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8 Jun
That was the Dryfuss thing. Now to the original news item of Chua et al.

The reason professors at social reproduction institutions - the elite universities designed to reproduce elite status cultures - court the students as “friends” is because they’re courting the parents.
They are correct when they behave as if doing this kind of thing is a perk of the job. The institutions are built that way and implicitly managed that way. Court the young elites for favor with their elders. It’s a professional strategy.
The problem is multi-fold. The elites set the norms downstream. So the guy from grad school is trained in the ways of Harvard but ends up teaching at...not Harvard. That’s one problem.
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8 Jun
Many white male colleagues really like to inculcate this. Faculty should not complain about their personal lives to their students because forced intimacy is a violation of institutional trust. They invite you to violate so that they can reciprocate.
You see, if you breach the student-teacher norms first — even if by invitation — then you because the initiator. Then when the teacher-professor violates a norm, they are just following your lead.
White men are especially attracted to this because, frankly, this is in keeping with much of how they interact with the world. An unrequited service to their students is abnormal because they do not serve anyone else in any other capacity.
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7 Jun
God love us, I showed up for a 3 pm appointment with a new stylist. I really want a professional condition & trim. Anyway, I walked in at 3:05 and ain’t nobody ready. I had forgotten this part 😭😭
Sweet girl. And I’m not mad AT ALL. But momma had a handful of loose hair extensions in her hand talking about it will be about ten minutes. Ma’am. I have been Black all my life. Ten minutes is when you’re holding THE MIRROR.
When you’re holding the rat tail comb and a spray bottle, it’s 25 minutes. When you still have loose hair in your hands???? IT IS AN HOUR.
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