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Making Black Lives Matter in academia: A Black feminist call for collective action against anti‐blackness in the academy

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  • Myrtle P. Bell
  • Daphne Berry
  • Joy Leopold
  • Stella Nkomo

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In this article, as have many Black women scholars in the past, we again call for collective action against anti‐blackness and White supremacy in the academy. Drawing from black feminist theory, we discuss the long history of Black women academics' activism against anti‐black racism and introduce the current movement: Black Lives Matter (BLM). Although BLM is often construed as resisting anti‐black violence outside the academy, it is also relevant for within the academy wherein anti‐blackness is likely to be manifested as disdain, disregard, and disgust for Black faculty and students. We discuss some of the ways in which anti‐blackness and liberal White supremacy are manifested in the lives of Black faculty and students, and propose that non‐Black allies have key roles to play in resisting them. Like second‐hand cigarette smoke that harms everyone in proximity, anti‐blackness and White supremacy harm us all, and a shared movement is needed to dismantle them.

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  • Myrtle P. Bell & Daphne Berry & Joy Leopold & Stella Nkomo, 2021. "Making Black Lives Matter in academia: A Black feminist call for collective action against anti‐blackness in the academy," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(S1), pages 39-57, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:gender:v:28:y:2021:i:s1:p:39-57
    DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12555
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