Abstract
Much has been written about the Black academic’s experiences of teaching in predominately White spaces. However, less has been shared about being triggered, especially when teaching during the time of the Trump administration. This essay discusses an email encounter with a White female student who was enrolled in a graduate diversity issues course. As articulated in her email response, after declining an informal conferencing opportunity with the instructor, the student critiqued the tenets of the course because of her own conceptions of Whiteness. Many of the comments made were similar to the onslaught of hate-speech and racial bias and intimidation that was propagated by the Trump administration. After providing context for the course, statements from the response email will be contextualized in conjunction with trending national news, executive orders, and existent literature on race-based perspectives.
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Scott, Lakia M.
(2021)
"Being Triggered as Faculty of Color: Reflections on Teaching Diversity during the Trump Era,"
Journal of Multicultural Affairs: Vol. 6:
Iss.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/jma/vol6/iss1/2
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