On Not Affirming Our Values

Stephen Finley, Lori Martin, and Biko Mandela Gray share about their article: “Affirming Our Values”: African American Scholars, White Virtual Mobs, and the Complicity of White University Administrators on episode 214 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I try to have very honest conversations with my students.
—Stephen Finley

You have to have integrity before you stand before these students.
—Biko Mandela Gray

Integrity and honesty on both sides is absolutely necessary.
—Biko Mandela Gray

A lot of institutions think diversity is having a woman, having a person of color, on faculty — but not structural change.
—Stephen Finley

Resources Mentioned

• George Dewey Yancy
• Dear White America, by George Yancy in The New York Times
• The Pain and Promise of Black Women in Philosophy, by George Yancy in The New York Times
• Should I Give Up on White People? By George Yancy in The New York Times
• Afro-pessimism 
• Black Lives Matter?: Africana Religious Responses to State Violence.
• Syracuse Fraternity Suspended for ‘Extremely Racist’ Video, by Maggie Astor in The New York Times
• The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign, by Jared Sexton
• Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid, by Frank B. Wilderson
• Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, by Frank B. Wilderson
• Frantz Fanon
• Black Skin, White Masks, by Frantz Fanon*
• The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon *
• Jesus turns over tables in anger
• Brood of vipers
• Debra Thompson
• An Exoneration of Black Rage, by Debra Thompson in The Atlantic Quarterly
• James Baldwin
• The Religion of White Rage – the book Stephen Finley, Lori Martin, and Biko Mandela Gray are writing