"the associated professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies"
If that is what passes today for an "academic discipline", then the transmission of knowledge is manifestly no longer the object of the academy. The purpose of such a course of study is not to enlighten, empower and inform, but to provoke, enrage, and indoctrinate. And toward what end? Toward this: a dominant condition of social alienation and existential despair. Such a condition never serves the intentions of free and happy men and women, but rather those of would-be tyrants and also not coincidentally, the desires of their willing enablers.