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Activist Davis warns
students of racism
SEATTLE |AP) — A new rac
ism is infecting American col
lege campuses. reflecting socie
ty's ills and promoting them,
black activist Angela Davis has
told students at the University
of Washington.
"The new racism doesn't
wear a sheet or carry a club. It's
more likely to be dressed quite
stylishly. It wears pins (pin
stripes) and sits at a compu
ter." Davis told students .it Sat
urday’s Race Relations in Aca
demia conference.
"We’ve come a long way in
the last 30 years." she said.
"Or have we really?"
The conference was spon
sored by the IHV African-Amer
ican Graduate Student Associa
tion. re-established this year to
attract more black, graduate stu
dents.
About 750 students gathered
for discussions on how to re
cruit and retain minority stu
dents, how racism is expressed
in an academic setting and oth
er related issues.
Davis, a professor of ethics
studies and women's studies at
San Francisco State University,
is a longtime activist for blacks'
and women's rights
"We've cited this racism on
campus, and administrators ar
gue it's simply a deviation from
the normal state of affairs," she
said.
"The academic establish
ment refuses to accept that it
mirrors larger society, includ
ing (biases) such as
homophobia and classism."
Davis said
"It refuses to acknowledge
that it plays a pivotal role in
the reproduction of all these
ideologies."
Campus racism in displayed
in smaller paychecks for ad
ministrators of minority pro
grams and a disparaging atti
tilde toward black studies. Da
vis said
At San Francisco State, she
said, faculty members have ad
vised students to drop out ol
black studies on grounds that it
would look had on resumes or
would be considered an easy
academic program
Black studies were also trivi
alized at that school when fac
ulty started a new political si i
cnce course on black politics
although such a class alreath
was offered in the blac k-studies
division. Davis said
And racism occurs on cam
pus in more subtle forms, Davis
said
The use of the term "under
class" in sociology courses, for
example, encourages the notion
that some people "don't de
serve to lie assimilated into so
cial classes." she said
Davis achieved notoriety in
1970 when she was accused of
aiding radicals in a sensational
1970 courthouse shooting in
Marin County, Calif. She was
acquitted of the charge and ran
for vice president on the Com
munist 1’arty ticket in 1980.
She has written an autobiog
raphy and two books on race
and women, and is working on
a book almut African women's
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