wanted to share a paper I recently read on this (the widespread framing of minority representation in western academia as "justice") which names it as a form of counterinsurgency.
Just Words: How Western Academics Disguise Their Bourgeois Aspirations as “Justice” to Present Capitalist and Colonial Violence as Progressive by lawrence maminta
Although the Student Intifada has unmasked the University as
a genocidal landlord that moonlights as a police state under the guise of a credential factory, the call to cite more non-white academics in the name of “justice” ignores the University’s normalized, structural violence against non-white workers. Universities have deployed Zionist vigilantes and state and federal law enforcement agencies against students who have been vocal in their objections to their schools’ investment in U.S. imperialism and complicity in genocide. The University’s recent deployments of extralegal and state violence against its workers echoes Kent State’s and Jackson State’s responses to students who protested the U.S. government’s mass murder of Vietnamese citizens in the 1960s and 1970s. Citational justice whitewashes this historic pattern of state and institutional violence by claiming that the University can be just and equitable if individuals cite more non-white scholars so that these non-white scholars’ class positions improve. It is this legitimizing of the University, a colonial institution rooted in the occupation of indigenous land, which makes citational justice (and other similar initiatives) inadequate, regressive and dangerous.
(considered adding this as a comment on the original post, but the article is definitely written for an audience of people in the imperial core, and I don't want to derail a post about us centrism with us centrism, so I'm making my own post. but I have the original post linked in the image so you can reblog that too.)
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