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A big part of the problem has always been a lack of outlets that have a readership . . . . On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 4:53 PM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > I also write for the public because I see my work as part of a long > tradition of black activist scholarship that was never fooled by the > idea that intellectual, practical and political work should be kept > separate. As an educator with expertise on racial inequality, I see my > responsibility extending beyond the classroom, even if I don’t yet have > tenure. W. E. B. Du Bois, perhaps the prototypical public sociologist, > neatly encapsulated this view of the necessity of public engagement when > he said, “One could not be a calm, cool and detached scientist while > Negroes were lynched, murdered and starved.” The racial problems Du Bois > identified are still with us, and we can help eradicate them by engaging > in the type of committed public writing that Du Bois modeled. > > > https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/05/17/academics-should-write-public-political-personal-and-practical-reasons-opinion > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/markalause%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com