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Racism, Power, and Place

We re-read the article and
comments to assess the use of
discursive tools used to elicit
specific responses, and determined
how particular statements or words
within the comments might provoke
reactions from readers.

selected an article titled "For Black Men," published in Inside Higher Ed, which has a reputation as a reliable higher education media
source practitioners read for news updates and
best practices.
To gain context for the comments, we
began by positioning ourselves as a general audience and reviewed the article and comments
while suspending judgment. We re-read the
article and comments to assess the use of discursive tools used to elicit specific responses,
and determined how particular statements or
words within the comments might provoke
reactions from readers. We also examined
the comments for textual manipulations in
which commenters wrote misleading text and
noticed several manipulations and omissions
embedded in the comments (Huckin, 1997).
As demonstrated below, commenters directed
their responses to the Black students rather
than the administrative leaders with decisionmaking power. Commenters also declined to
acknowledge the benefits of UCSH. In the
next section, we highlight specific comments
in more detail and expose overarching themes
in the commentary.

FINDINGS: CDA OF SCHOLA2RS
HOUSE COMMENTARY
We reviewed a total of 230 comments and although not all comments contained a negative
viewpoint concerning the UCSH, most were
blatantly racist or suggested racist undertones.
The comments contained several themes, but
for the scope of this paper we discuss two in
detail: 1) segregation and 2) black inferiority.

Segregation
Several themes repeatedly emerged, but "segregation" surfaced most often as commenters
equated UCSH as a return of segregation.
Readers left comments such as the following:
"...the phenomenon of black self re-segregation has
always puzzled me," "Doesn't Brown v. Board of
Education have to be overturned before we revert
to the good old days of segregation now, segregation
forever?" and "Next they'll be asking for all-black
drinking fountains, and we should give them those
too. Interestingly, I'm old enough to remember
the Jim Crow days, and an argument that used
to be trotted out in favor of the system was 'that's
the way the nigras like it." Another commenter
shared, "So, the whole desegregation thing was
a mistake? We should separate students because
they will thrive around their own kind? Seems to
contradict everything I have been reading for years
on IHE about the need for 'diversity.'"
These commenters disregarded the fact
that UCSH is not for Black students only,
and welcomes applications from all male students. Moreover, they manipulated the idea
of segregation, which historically was forced
upon minoritized communities; when in actuality, students have the option to choose to
live there. The commenters immediately presented the idea of segregation as the primary

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