Welcome to Reconcile Digest #7. I’m so glad you’re here.
I have been called ‘articulate’ many times over the years, despite always having a role where articulation was the entire job description. Any black academic (or black professional, for that matter) might have experienced being subject to surprised faces at their ability to assert themselves with grace or speak with clarity and candour.
‘There’s a price to be paid for making them laugh and for not making them laugh, and I have strategically chosen the latter’
McGee & Kazembe (2015)
This digest translates research on a complex experience I had never seen put into words before: Black academics being viewed through a lens of fascination and entertainment, rather than expertise.
Honestly, I can’t wait to hear what you have to say about this.
