(1) “Unfortunately, I have too often believed while teaching race that clearing up delusions about race would diminish racism, rather than tackling how racism makes race salient–see Social Construction of Race = Conservative Goldmine.”
http://www.livinganthropologically.com/2012/07/23/teaching-race-anthropology/?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer0816a&utm_medium=twitter

(2) “It also seems the mood has shifted from ignoring or denying these inequalities to outright attacks on people who try to address them.”
http://www.livinganthropologically.com/2011/03/28/race-remixed/

Can Savage Minds extend this self-critique of why anthropology is one of the most racially segregated disciplines, and what practices–concretely and specifically–perpetuate ‘white public space’? If so many anthropologists profess a commitment to ‘race as a social construction’ and not being ‘racist’, then why are actual practices in the discipline not living up to these espoused antiracist commitments?

More specifically, is race simply a ‘conservative goldmine’ when many anthropologists also have implicit biases which justify racial profiling or make comments like “keep your ‘privilege’ critique at home if you want to be friends” and “nonwhites get jobs and fellowships thrown at them” (an enunciation of a politics of resentment that anthropologists are quick to critique if made by a conservative Republican politician carping about ‘those people’ ‘stealing’ ‘our jobs’, but which is greeted with silence and non-repudiation if made by white male anthropologists). And this last comment is not a personal attack violating the comments policy, but a concrete example of the ‘connecting all the dots’ discussed here, in an AAA blog post directly following up on President Mullings’ Trayvon Martin statement:
“As white folks, we have the luxury and the privilege to ignore, deny, pretend, soften, moderate, believe that we are nice people who never do bad things so these systemic patterns have nothing to do with us, and we can be horrified but do nothing. We can reap the privileges of a system that continuously provides us with benefits of the doubt, second chances, and be allowed to believe it’s all solely because of our individual effort.”
http://blog.aaanet.org/2013/07/26/time-to-connect-all-the-dots/

What does it take to get anthropologists to be more self-critical, and practice the zero tolerance for racism they preach? What practices in anthropology are standing in the way?

http://blog.aaanet.org/2013/07/22/reflections-on-the-killing-of-a-black-boy/

Worth relating back to Christakis’ argument (per Rex’s post) that ‘we’ all know racial profiling is bad. Apparently not.

Certainly worth really taking an unflinching look at ongoing racism within Anthropology, even as we criticize the racism of those outside it.

How often so White female anthropologists complain about sexism in the academy without extend the same arguments to race? How often do (White) anthropologists look at a lack of under-represented minority faculty and advance the same argument of discrimination? interesting that I have been pilloried for pointing out this same issue of complete absence of some kinds of faculty from certain anthropology programs, and then can’t even comment on the *documented* racial terrorizing reaction I got from certain professors for pointing out this same pattern of de facto discrimination.

Double standard?

If we can’t be honest about the racism in anthropology and why it exists, nothing is actually going to change for the better.

So yes, as I said in my censored and now deleted comment: Leith Mullings isn’t saying anything I haven’t said for years, but because of her position she will not be openly attacked, smeared, and discredited as a stupid and violent black criminal from the ghetto making invalid comments about hostile racial climates in anthropology departments when no such problem actually exists.