Monday, February 28, 2005
Cramping my style
The Patriot Blog already pointed out the obvious in this article about the African American Student Development office. The new director is named S. Nzingha Dugas. *sigh*
She points to the many times she’s heard of professors questioning the legitimacy of black students’ research as an example of the shadow of doubt that can follow black students.
When professors falsely insinuate that black students have plagiarized their assignments, it undermines their academic self-esteem, Dugas says.
Professors question the legitimacy of all students' research. That's part of their job. They can't just make exceptions for black students. They're also supposed to check for plagiarism.
I'd really like to hear specific examples of this, where a student is accused of plagiarism because she's black. That'd be worth hearing. But if we're just going to throw broad accusations of racism at professors in general, that's just not cool.
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