Could a white or Asian graduate in Black Studies get a job anywhere that he/she/ze/they applied?

by philg

If we look at a representative Black Studies department at a university, such as the one chaired by Prof. Dr. Dr. Maulana Karenga, Ph.D., Ph.D. at California State University, Long Beach, there is no evidence of any person identifying as “white” or “Asian” among the faculty. Here’s a poster from 2022:

What if a mediocre non-Black person with a Ph.D. in some branch of Comparative Victimhood were to apply to a department with no faculty identifying as non-Black? Would the non-Black person have to be hired in order to satisfy the university’s commitment to DEI? Or could the university say that whites and Asians in engineering and #Science balanced an all-Black Black Studies department?

9 thoughts on “Could a white or Asian graduate in Black Studies get a job anywhere that he/she/ze/they applied?”

  1. What if a mediocre non-Black person with a Ph.D. in some branch of Comparative Victimhood were to apply to a department with no faculty identifying as non-Black? They would not be hired.
    Would the non-Black person have to be hired in order to satisfy the university’s commitment to DEI? No. N****s can never be racist.
    Or could the university say that whites and Asians in engineering and #Science balanced an all-Black Black Studies department? They can say it but it’s still false.

    • Speaking of rhetorical questions, how does philg know that know that none of the faculty identify as non-Black?

  3. “Would the non-Black person have to be hired in order to satisfy the university’s commitment to DEI?”

    I suspect the answer is “maybe”, depending on their position in the victimhood hierarchy. Certainly white-adjacent and/or colonizers need not apply.

  4. The bigger question is why does the African Studies Department at Cal State Long Beach have nineteen professors!

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