Disciplinary containment: whiteness and the academic scarcity narrative

Amid rising controversy around the alleged distinctions between merit and excellence lies a familiar refrain, scarcity. The narrative of academic scarcity, proclaiming the insufficient numbers of scholars and academics of color, permeates conversations in higher education. We suggest that the academ...

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Published inCommunication and critical/cultural studies Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 236 - 242
Main Authors Flores, Lisa A., Rae Gomez, Logan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 02.04.2020
Subjects
abundance
Containment
race
scarcity
whiteness
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ISSN1479-1420
1479-4233
DOI10.1080/14791420.2020.1770818

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Summary:Amid rising controversy around the alleged distinctions between merit and excellence lies a familiar refrain, scarcity. The narrative of academic scarcity, proclaiming the insufficient numbers of scholars and academics of color, permeates conversations in higher education. We suggest that the academic scarcity narrative, a remnant of stagnant logics of diversity, circulates as a contemporary mechanism of what we name disciplinary containment. Extending disciplinary conversations around rhetorical containment, we argue that disciplinary containment perpetuates whiteness.
ISSN:1479-1420
1479-4233
DOI:10.1080/14791420.2020.1770818