Is It Still Better to Intentionally Have More Women, More Black People, More Latinos on Academic Panels?

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Is it still better to intentionally have more women, more black people, more latinos on academic panels and published books? Yes, absolutely. And i think, much more importantly, their just wasn't a reason for the exclusion of these people in the first placeit there wasn’t a reason that intellectual life should have been sis white mail dominated. So sure, diversify the syllabi. Sure diversify the podcasos, whatever. Just don't confuse that project with the project of al justice or anti capitalism.

Featuring Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his essay "Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference," an interview first posted in December 2020. This pairs well with last week's Jared Clemons interview on In This House We Believe antiracism. Since 2020, Táíwò has published a book expanding on these ideas: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else). Read Táíwò's essay: thephilosopher1923.org/post/being-in-the-room-privilege-elite-capture-and-epistemic-deference Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Read our newsletter at thedigradio.com