WHAT IS IT WITH BLACK FEMINIST QUEER PROFESSORS?
I can’t help but wonder if it is a form of mental illness or self-serving ego-driven greed that is producing a cohort of black feminist, queer professors that appear to hate America and promote Marxism and Communism?
Jenn M. Jackson (they/them) is a queer genderflux androgynous Black woman, an abolitionist, a lover of all Black people, and an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University in the Department of Political Science. <Source> It's twenty years since 9/11 and I'm still really disturbed by how many white pundits and correspondents talk about it. — jenn m. jackson (@JennMJacksonPhD) September 10, 2021
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I'm watching Andy Card and Jeh Johnson on MSNBC. Card just said that 9/11 was the first time that Americans ever felt fear. He said that it was the last morning we woke up without fear and that the "terrorists" succeeded in introducing us to fear. — jenn m. jackson (@JennMJacksonPhD) September 10, 2021
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White Americans might not have really felt true fear before 9/11 because they never felt what it meant to be accessible, vulnerable, and on the receiving side of military violence at home. But, white Americans' experiences are not a stand-in for "America." — jenn m. jackson (@JennMJacksonPhD) September 10, 2021
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Plenty of us Americans know what it's like to experience fear and we knew before 9/11. For a lot of us, we know fear *because* of other Americans. — jenn m. jackson (@JennMJacksonPhD) September 10, 2021
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We have to be more honest about what 9/11 was and what it wasn't. It was an attack on the heteropatriarchal capitalistic systems that America relies upon to wrangle other countries into passivity. It was an attack on the systems many white Americans fight to protect. — jenn m. jackson (@JennMJacksonPhD) September 10, 2021
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We have to be clear that the same motivations that animated America's hypervigilance and responsiveness to "terror" after 9/11 are now motivating the carceral state and anti-immigration policy. — jenn m. jackson (@JennMJacksonPhD) September 10, 2021
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Consider the motivation?
Jackson is the author of the forthcoming book BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US (Random House Press, 2022). The book is an intellectual and political history of Black women’s activism, movement organizing, and philosophical work that explores how women from Harriet Jacobs to Audre Lorde to the members of the Combahee River Collective, among others, have for centuries taught us how to fight for justice and radically reimagine a more just world for us all.
Who is Jenn Jackson?
Affiliate, Women’s and Gender Studies Degree: Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2019 Specialties: Black Politics, Gender and Sexuality, Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Social Movements, Mixed Methods Courses: Gender and Politics, Black Feminist Politics, Advanced Qualitative Methods, Introduction to American National Government Biography: Jenn M. Jackson (she/they) is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science. She also holds faculty affiliations in African American Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and LGBT Studies. Jackson is a Senior Research Associate at the Campbell Public Affairs Institute. Their research is in Black Politics with a focus on group threat, gender and sexuality, political behavior, and social movements. Jackson is the author of peer-reviewed articles at Public Culture, Politics, Groups, and Identities, and the Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy, and the author of several forthcoming book chapters on the intersections of race, gender, class, and politics. Jackson’s first academic book project investigates the role of threat in influencing Black Americans’ political behavior through the lens of policing in the United States. They find that Black women are most likely to express concerns about state-based and intragroup threat. Comparatively, Black men vary drastically in their responses to group threat depending on their sexual orientation, gender expression, and vulnerability to stereotypes.
Jackson received their doctoral degree from the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago where they also received a graduate certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Jackson earned a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Southern California with a minor in Sociology. They went on to earn an MA with honors in Political Science from California State University, Fullerton where they later taught Political Science Research Methods and Black Politics.
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Bottom line…
In my opinion, any academic program whose fundamental axioms are based on racism or hatred of our country is suspect and should be countered by conservative commentary. Likewise, people who view everything through the prism of race are likely to be racists, like those who view everything through the prism of class struggle are likely to be communists.
The thought that this negative person is teaching others is distressing.
We are so screwed.
-- steve
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