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This week on Dispatches from Clown World we are discussing token black professors. Tyler Austin Harper at The Atlantic wrote a quite interesting story about his time as a professor at a liberal arts college and the process by which it became apparent that they cared little for his skillset but instead only valued his skin color. This is, of course, yet another story where every moderately perceptive person had figured out by now that this was, in broad strokes, the case. Still, the story goes into great depth, is humorous, and Harper is a wonderful writer.
Then, after selecting that topic, the news came out that Jason Arday was found dead. Arday, of course, was billed as the “youngest Black [sic] professor in Cambridge history” and had a truly fantastical bio and had resigned after it coming out all of his work was plagiarized, in what is another scalp for the race science substackers. It provides an incredible contrast to Harper’s story, since Harper was act…
