TY - JOUR
T1 - Disciplinary containment
T2 - whiteness and the academic scarcity narrative
AU - Flores, Lisa A.
AU - Rae Gomez, Logan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, © 2020 National Communication Association.
PY - 2020/4/2
Y1 - 2020/4/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1080/14791420.2020.1770818
DO - 10.1080/14791420.2020.1770818
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086938761
SN - 1479-1420
VL - 17
SP - 236
EP - 242
JO - Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies
JF - Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies
IS - 2
ER -