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In addition, what the person is saying is just wrong. Source? Me. I'm a straight white male in the humanities. I can point to at least a dozen straight white pe
by jccalhoun 5y ago
In addition, what the person is saying is just wrong. Source? Me. I'm a straight white male in the humanities. I can point to at least a dozen straight white people I went to grad school with that teach at various levels of college from community college to R1. I don't think I know a single straight white male that got his phd and doesn't have some job in academia. (it is possible that there are some I went to school with that got their phd and left academia but I have not stayed in contact with them.)
- hkthrowaway88 5y agoCommunity college? Come on, be serious. I mean jobs in which people can have an actual academic career, i.e. be published and have an impact on their discipline.
- jccalhoun 5y agoI wrote, "teach at various levels of college from community college to R1"
- hkthrowaway88 5y agoHow many at each? Edit: To be perfectly clear, I mean no disrespect to anyone who teaches at a community college. It is valuable and important work. But I think it’s fair to say that people going into a Phd program, and dedicating 6-10 years of their life to working themselves ragged as the OP describes, are not doing so with the hope that they may one day teach at a community college. So, holding that up and saying “See, they had a perfectly fine outcome from getting a PhD, they got to teach at a community college!” is just disingenuous.
- jccalhoun 5y agoYou said "Not mentioned here, but if you want an academic job in the humanities, in the US, don't be white. Universities have adopted explicitly racist hiring policies for the time being."