Posted on 11/23/2015 1:53:17 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
[University of Colorado education professor, Cherly E.] Matias draws on what's known as "critical race theory" (CRT). Given the heavily politicized nature of the contemporary academy, it should come as no surprise that CRT is a racialized version of Marxism and all of the rage among legions of academics.
I had always looked upon my six-year-old son as a blessing.
But now I realize that he is a disease.
My wife, my parents, my grandparents, and every member of my family, both living and deceased, are likewise a disease.
But if you are reading this right now, and you are white, you should know that your children and all of your loved ones are also a disease.
So implies a University of Colorado education professor, Cherly E. Matias, in the most recent edition of Teaching Education, a peer-reviewed journal.
In "'Why Do You Make Me Hate Myself?': Re-teaching Whiteness, Abuse, and Love in Urban Teaching Education," the author insists that "the racial achievement gap" and other racial disparities are "symptoms" of "the underlying diseases of racism and Whiteness" (italics added).
Whiteness is a disease.
Matias explains that while the "inclusion of socially just philosophies in the curriculum is indeed essential" in order "to meet the needs of a growing urban populace," such philosophies "can mask the recycling of normalized, oppressive Whiteness."
Thus, it is imperative, Matias maintains, to "deconstruct Whiteness, abuse, and love in teacher education."
The problem, Matias assures us, is that by "denying race during white childhood via a color-blind ideology," whites leave "lasting emotional scars, impressions that perpetuate the institutional silencing of race in teacher education." Urban students of color are made to "endure a racist educational system and daily racial battle fatigue."
But the difference between this "racism" and that faced by students and other "people of color" in the past is that the former is "color-blind racism."
The author maintains that "until teacher education programs make confronting and exploring Whiteness a priority, they cannot truly love their urban students of color as complete beings and so deny humanity full and just consideration" (italics added).
Whiteness is a disease.
And it is a disease that whites spread through their embrace of....color-blindness.
Let this sink in.
Matias is hardly an anomaly in today's academy. In fact, her thought is quite typical of the hard-left zeitgeist that passes for enlightened thinking among liberal arts and humanities professors at institutions of "higher learning" all over the country (and beyond).
Matias draws on what's known as "critical race theory" (CRT). Given the heavily politicized nature of the contemporary academy, it should come as no surprise that CRT is a racialized version of Marxism and all of the rage among legions of academics.
Just as Marx and Engels sought to supply a comprehensive vision-an ideology-of the world by explaining (or explaining away) all of history and culture in terms of impersonal economic processes and the relations of "power" that they generate, proponents of CRT as well endorse a similar form of reductionism.
Only here, it is primarily race that serves as the "substructure" of society, and while economics continues to play a vital role in determining asymmetries of "power" between social groups, race and "racism" are the determining factors.
As such proponents of CRT as Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic inform us in the introduction to their Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, CRT differs from more "traditional civil rights" approaches inasmuch as it "questions the very foundations of a liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law."
To put it more exactly, CRT holds that "racism is ordinary, not aberrational[.]" It is "the usual way that society does business, the common, everyday experience of most people of color in this country." Moreover, "racism" serves the "material" and "psychic" interests of both "white elites" and "working class whites."
"Racism" is omnipresent.
Yet it is omnipresent not in the sense that all white individuals are consciously "racist"; "racism" is omnipresent in the sense that it is systemic and, hence, largely unconscious.
Another especially noteworthy respect in which CRT reveals both its Marxian impress and its political character is its emphasis on "activism." Delgado and Stefancic are blunt in expressing their interest in "studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power."
To repeat what was said above, both parents of college-bound children and taxpayers should know that the Cheryl Matiases and Richard Delgados of the world are not only well-represented in academia; their thought saturates the liberal arts and humanities.
It should also be clear by now that, by design, CRT (not unlike every other department that has been invented for the sake of advancing gender and racial identity politics) is self-immunized against the very possibility of refutation. And this is because it is meant to preempt argument. Consider: If whites think as whites or collectively, then they are guilty of "racism." Yet so too are whites "racist" if they insist upon judging people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin, i.e. if they endorse a "color-blind ideology."
No matter what, the game is rigged in advance to convict all whites of "racism."
Proponents of CRT, in their singular (obsessive) focus upon distributions of "power," betray their end game: It is they who seek power. In fact, they seek a monopoly on power.
This is the objective of all who rely upon "Newspeak." The great philosopher Roger Scruton explains: "Newspeak occurs whenever the main purpose of language-which is to describe reality-is replaced by the rival purpose of asserting power over it."
While Newspeak "sentences sound like assertions," the truth is that "their underlying logic is the logic of the spell." Newspeak is talismanic, not persuasive. Its language is meant to blind us to what's right in front of our faces, to render us oblivious to reality.
Scruton quotes Francoise Thom, who observed that communists used Newspeak "to protect ideology from the malicious attacks of real things." Ditto with CRT.
Newspeak is notable, Scruton remarks, for its "use of nominalizations instead of direct verbs, the lack of indexicals, the preference for the passive voice and impersonal idioms, the replacement of predications with comparatives, the ubiquitous imperative mood."
In other words, Newspeak trades in impersonal, highly general abstractions, i.e. "isms." Critical Race Theory is a textbook illustration of this: The individual is swallowed up, his or her intentions dissolved before the omnipresence of "systemic racism."
It is with this, parents, that your children are being inundated. Dear taxpayer, it is for the sake of subsidizing this anti-intellectual drivel that you labor.
But let's get even more exact: White parents and taxpayers are paying the salaries of faculty and administrators so that the latter can turn around and declare to the next generation that they are a "disease."
No matter what, the game is rigged in advance to convict all whites of "racism."
Ditto for all liberal grievance groups.
And “certainly” American Exceptionalism is a disease - as is the idea of Colonialism (toss in McCarthyism for good measure) - the “education” industry has many ways to distort achievement and freedom.
Besides the fact that she is polluting young minds paying for the pleasure, she is polluting two children on a grander scale who have no choice in the matter. And, BTW WTF is a “MotherScholar?”
Matias suffers from deep stupidity.
The Front Page article contains a link to the actual paper. You need to scroll down a little through the publisher’s front material to get to the actual article.
It is pretty long (as these screeds usually are) and cannot be directly downloaded without some sort of log-in through an account or social media. So bookmark or copy and paste seem to be the only options if you don’t want to provide personal information to the publisher.
As for the substance of the article, it is even more sickeningly fawning over the “disease of whiteness” than described in the Front Page review.
Incurable anti-Americanism, and she's doing her best to spread it far and wide.
http://theobamacrat.com/2015/06/19/someone-you-should-know-dr-cheryl-e-matias/
Cheryl E. Matias, Ph.D.
Affiliations
1. Affiliate faculty Master’s of Social Science (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
2. National research affiliate ISEEED
3. Co-founder of Research Advocacy in Critical Education (R.A.C.E)
Awards
1. 2014 AERA Division K Innovations in Research on Diversity in Teacher Education awardee
2. 2015 University of Colorado Rosa Parks Diversity Awardee
3. 2015 School of Education and Human Development Researcher of the Year
My Counterstory*
I was born and raised in Los Angeles where public schools adhered to standardized curriculum and pedagogies devoid of any social analysis or recognition of race relations. As such, the daily lived racial experiences of students of color, as myself, were ignored and inherently deemed unimportant, thus forcing students of color to find development of their racial identity at alternative educational structures (i.e. on the streets of Los Angeles.) As a former public school teacher in both Los Angeles Unified School District (South Los Angeles) and New York City Department of Education (Bedford-Stuyvesant), I observed the same phenomenon happening to my Black and Brown students. Notwithstanding the raceless effects of standardized curriculum, I designed a standards-based history curriculum on the evolution of race and racism in American society. I then document the curriculum’s impact on the symbiotic development of racial identities of Black, White, Latino/Chicano, and Asian Pacific American high school students. By translating Critical Race Theory (CRT) into K-12 pedagogical and curricular practices, my students had access to lingua franca and concepts to better analyze race in society and bridge that understanding to their positive development of their own racial identities.
Analyzing race in society is just one of the many layers to my research agenda and identity. Subscribing to the principles of CRT, I acknowledge the intersectionality of class, gender, sexual orientation, and all forms of social, ideological, and political oppression. As a female faculty of color (Pinay) and motherscholar, I continue to struggle towards social justice in all realms of our society for the hope of a better fuller humanity. I am the faculty coordinator of Research Advocacy in Critical Education (R.A.C.E.), a new think tank and support system for Coloradan researchers, activists, staff and students committed to justice and advocacy in critical education. Contact engageR.A.C.E.UCD@gmail.com for more information.
The below poem better encapsulates my life. Read it and contact me for a soy latte........................”
She’s a busy gal:
http://theobamacrat.com/2015/06/19/someone-you-should-know-dr-cheryl-e-matias/
Cheryl E. Matias, Ph.D.
Cheryl Matias
University of Colorado Denver, Educational Foundations, Faculty Member
PAPERS
I Ain’t Your Doc Student: The Overwhelming Presence of Whiteness and Pain in the Academic Neoplantation
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White Skin, Black Friend: A Fanonian application to theorize racial fetish in teacher education
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Beyond the Face of Race: Emo-Cognitive Explorations of White Neurosis and Racial Cray-Cray
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Push it Real Good http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/criticaled/article/view/184211/184436
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And Our Feelings, Just Don;t Feel it Anymore: http://www.wpcjournal.com/article/view/12176/pdf_2
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What is Critical Whiteness Doing in OUR Nice Field of CRT?
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When saying you care is not really caring: emotions of disgust, whiteness ideology, and teacher education
by michalinos zembylas, Cheryl Matias
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Book Review on John Preston’s Book “Whiteness in Academia”
by Cheryl Matias, Naomi Nishi
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Tending to the Hearts of Communities of Color: Towards Critical Race Teacher Activism
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Loving Whiteness to Death
by Cheryl Matias, Ricky Lee Allen
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On the Flip Side: A Teacher Educator of Color Unveiling the Dangerous Minds of White Teacher Candidates
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Check Yo’Self Before You Wreck Yo’Self and Our Kids: From Culturally Responsive White Teachers? to Culturally Responsive White Teachers!
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An Eye on Pinoy: Getting Connected
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Check Yo’self Before You Wreck Yo’self and Our Kids: Counterstories of Culturally Responsive White Teachers? to Culturally Responsive White Teachers!
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Tears Worth Telling: Urban Teaching and the Possibilities of Racial Justice
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Where are you REALLY from? Raced curriculum, racial identity, and a project for a fuller humanity
Who you callin’ white?! A critical counter-story on colouring white identity
Who You Callin’ White? A Critical Counterstory of Colouring White Racial Identity
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Betwixt and Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial
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Beginning with Me: Accounting for a Researcher of Color’s Counterstories in Socially Just Qualitative Design
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Minority racism isn’t a myth. It’on the march.
“Mother-Scholar presents another way of knowing. The book illuminates the narratives of prominent mother-scholars in the discipline of education who are determined to (re)imagine a different educational space not only for their own children, but for all children.
Today’s schools are male-centered institutions in which standardized testing, rational mind, and emotionless space prevent children from realizing their full potential as creative, intelligent and soulful beings.
Mother-scholars in the discipline of education assert that when motherhood and intellect confront and inform each other, a new thinking emerges to capture the possibility of humanizing education beyond the private relationships between mothers and children.”
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789460918919
Middle Eastern is interesting considering their world impact.>
Wow. . .with a CV like that she can get a job anywhere. . . .
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HAH!!
What the heck is a “COUNTERSTORY*?”
Bottom of the page is where the you can log in and comment.
There is a warning though, and I sincerely apologize for the language as this is a direct quote of the warning—”Reply At Your Own Risk. Leave The Dumbfuckery At The Door.”
Not much of a “safe space.”
I feel so respected and welcomed and validated.
Inclusiveness and welcoming.
Looking at the behavioral issues of other groups, one wonders how someone arrives at the hypothesis that “whiteness” is a disease. I see many more symptoms of various social pathologies in other groups.
Should be working at Walmart instead of teaching.
If she thinks she has a disease (whiteness) then she should help society rid itself of it by committing suicide. She would not be missed...
For openers, "Pinay" is a calque, a non-English word used in English without definition or explanation. What I came up with suggests that it is a word used by and about Filipina women. It appears to be a Tagalog calque, Tagalog being the native, and third most spoken, language of the Philippines, after English and Spanish (O! those evil racist white people!). "Motherscholar" is pure cant. No further discussion is desirable, once we understand that the authoress is pissing in our ear.
Re the ill-defined group R.A.C.E. to which Matias belongs, check this University of Colorado at Denver syllabus material, with which you can see Matias is involved, to get an idea what Matias is "teaching" about "the cancer of the planet" </off Sontag>:
https://m.facebook.com/ResearchAdvocacyinCriticalEducation/photos/pb.512568355467011.-2207520000.1448280298./799578693432641/?type=3&source=54&refid=17
[Sorry about the cold link; posting hot links from a cell phone is a bit much.]
That should do for starters on ripping open this Commie cookie's little white-bashing gig.
Which is not to mention how rich it is, for Communist punks to immigrate to America, and then start teaching ghetto schoolteachers crap like this to develop "white traitors" to destroy America.
For openers, "Pinay" is a calque, a non-English word used in English without definition or explanation. What I came up with suggests that it is a word used by and about Filipina women. It appears to be a Tagalog calque, Tagalog being the native, and third most spoken, language of the Philippines, after English and Spanish (O! those evil racist white people!). "Motherscholar" is pure cant. No further discussion is desirable, once we understand that the authoress is pissing in our ear.
Re the ill-defined group R.A.C.E. to which Matias belongs, check this University of Colorado at Denver syllabus material, with which you can see Matias is involved, to get an idea what Matias is "teaching" about "the cancer of the planet" </off Sontag>:
https://m.facebook.com/ResearchAdvocacyinCriticalEducation/photos/pb.512568355467011.-2207520000.1448280298./799578693432641/?type=3&source=54&refid=17
[Sorry about the cold link; posting hot links from a cell phone is a bit much.]
That should do for starters on ripping open this Commie cookie's little white-bashing gig.
Which is not to mention how rich it is, for Communist punks to immigrate to America, and then start teaching ghetto schoolteachers crap like this to develop "white traitors" to destroy America.
She has crazy eyes!
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