MLAlienation

Speaking out against elitism, privilege, inequality

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Rest in power @MirandaMerklein. #MLA18

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Miranda was a FW here in Boston. Rest in power. Miranda Merklein https://t.co/1iHo6Pg2Yb

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#MLA16 Good times

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#MLA16 “Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs” https://t.co/laBwnFPEOC

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#MLA16 “Minority professors in majority academic settings often must struggle against the presumption that they are incompetent.” (Moody:04

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#MLA16 “women and other underrepresented candidates may be subject to different expectations than majority candidates” (Trix & Psenka: 2003)

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#MLA16 “hire more former adjuncts” https://t.co/p7tUw0FVmk

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#MLA16 “’This is an elite university and a lot of the people at the university are elitists,’ one professor said.” https://t.co/WJ7fXT0xO6

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#MLa16 “practice a form of affirmative action for everyone who is not an international Asian student”

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#MLa16 “strongly critiqued and eventually passed over in part related to her having attended a religious undergraduate institution”

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#MLa16 “admissions committees risk averse in ways that limit the diversity of those admitted”

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#MLA16 “And this starts with who gets to be on admissions committees.”

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#MLA16 “White males ‘dominated’ the admissions committees”

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#MLA16 “And I think that right there is the problem: the MLA is not a leader” https://t.co/7ZvpqLA241

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#MLA16 “’If you are on the job market you absolutely should attend the MLA if you can afford it." Which is clueless and tone deaf.”

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#MLA16 “By definition, a paywall is meant to exclude people.” https://t.co/aQ7k79HuU5

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#MLA16 “If it was open to anyone, why would there be a paywall?”

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#mla16 #MLA17 #MLA18 #mla19 #MLA20
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#MLA16 “So why does the MLA still restrict access. The answer is pretty simple: money.” https://t.co/yl4ITcACrV