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And here's the article from which this chart was taken: https://aaas-iuse.org/mitigate-the-impact-of-systemic-bias/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0g-fPzeEhFH60iBnhnU9WmFtabHor1_nJnfIOXFHa2GvJRZgRTod-38NQ_aem_AfWNeqYHy3mdpBJ7sEzRDTfTASsmfFwLV4Iqcq78fBkaM9KxnzfOC-2du6GtVi9eb16qTGuyiLR4pT8xqlFf2Wrw

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View Leslie K. Wang, PhD’s profile (She/Her)Author

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Julien Cayla, nailed it! How people assume that hiring has nothing to do with your personality is beyond me.

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Noah Smith had a great post about this guy's real problem being that he is a historian and imbalance of supply and demand for history PhDs since the Great Recession. Also he is a 20th century US historian which is very plain vanilla, pardon the possible pun.

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Leah Borden, I think the formula is something like: white male entitlement + flooded field = no job

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Finding a position in higher education is a complex, multi-faceted process. This term, I presented at a humanities conference on my research into the representation of Hispanic male scholars in Mass Communications departments in North and South Carolina, specifically at South Carolina State University. My findings were quite revealing: there are zero Hispanic male scholars in Mass Communications at both USC Columbia and Clemson University, the two public flagship institutions in the state!

Hispanic male scholars in this field are indeed a rarity. In fact, there are only two Hispanic male scholars in all of South Carolina’s educational institutions, and I am one of them. It is evident that equity efforts have fallen short for Hispanic males in academia.

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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Elon University

The truth is that the academic job market sucks, more so in some (sub)disciplines. My wife, an Asian woman, has PhDs from two highly respectable institutions and a postdoc from another top university. She has multiple peer-reviewed publications and has presented her work at conferences worldwide. She teaches as an adjunct faculty and her students love her. She didn't get a tenure-track job over the past three years because there are only a handful of job openings in her field each year. Unfortunately, it is easier to blame underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities than to take a hard look at the structural factors that have turned academia into a Ponzi scheme.

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Reminded me of a conversation w a man who was complaining how he feels unsafe 'now that every safety initiative is for women'!

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Yeah, it was an honour to meet him!

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Thank you. I don't ever go to Twitter given the rampant racism and gender racism, so I appreciate the update. Just a note that this isn't unique to academia. It isn't even unique to white people or white men, though they are the predominant groups driving mathematically impossible reverse discrimination narratives.

Why do I say mathematically impossible? In almost every field, the number of people from privileged groups who are convinced their careers were derailed and feel "their" spots were taken by, for example, Black people vastly exceeds the number of Black people hired into those fields. And the focus of Black people and Black women as the main groups that supposedly doesn't belong spans the ideological spectrum. There's also the fact that the supply of US history professors positions hasn't been close to the number of "qualified" candidates produced for at least several decades.

Who would hire a candidate who would take such a stance?

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I’d be curious to see how the chart would look if data for adjunct and contingent faculty were included as well.

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Nicholas Miceli I’d expect adjunct faculty to be still predominantly white, but perhaps proportionally more female and PGM suggesting a more even distribution when the work is more precarious.