Is Being Black a Badge of Merit?
By John S. Rosenberg January 9, 2019
The question of whether, or to what degree, applicants are admitted or hired because they are black or Hispanic (or American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NHPI)) is a central and indeed indispensable component of the ongoing debate over affirmative action. Now, if a recent Classics meeting in San Diego is any indication, that subject has become unmentionable in scholarly gatherings.
According to an agitated report in Inside Higher Ed ), “Q and A Goes Horribly Wrong,†an annual gathering of Classicists in San Diego was disrupted when a participant in a dispute in effect called a panel member an affirmative action hire.
The incident involved an attack on Dan-el Padilla Peralta, an assistant professor of classics at Princeton University, by an independent scholar named Mary Frances Williams.
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2019/01/09/is-being-black-a-badge-of-merit/
