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Talking Loud and Saying Nothing: Kicking Faux Ally-ness to the Curb by Battling Racial Battle Fatigue Using White Accomplice-ment

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Article

Publication Date

12-1-2019

Publication Title

Departures in Critical Qualitative Research

DOI

10.1525/dcqr.2019.8.4.100

Abstract

The road a predominantly white institution (PWI) takes to maximize diversity, inclusion, and equity can be fraught with challenges. One midsize institution learned through an assessment of its campus climate that its institutional practices and arrangements impeded diversity, inclusion, and equity despite white administrators' beliefs to the contrary. To help quell systemic racism habits, monthly campus-wide workshops focused on several key racial injustice habits and hurtful microaggressions generated from white privilege. A faux social justice allure to white allies who considered themselves advocates of nondominant people is one that should ultimately call into question the genuineness and true nature of their support. This semi-autoethnographic essay is a plaintive call to white colleagues in the academy to earnestly acknowledge white privilege and to use it to actively fight the destructive force of racial battle fatigue and institutional racism.

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Georgia Southern University faculty member, Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas authored, "Talking Loud and Saying Nothing: Kicking Faux Ally-ness to the Curb by Battling Racial Battle Fatigue Using White Accomplice-ment."

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