RE: Black students demand college rescind offer to white prof...

Posted on: April 25, 2017 at 11:32:26 CT

Alice Goffman carries a name very famous among sociologists: her father was Erving Goffman, whose book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is among the most influential works sociology of the last century. She started her career with a bang, spending six years (!) in participant observation of black street gangs, resulting in a dissertation that was honored as the best of the year by the American Sociological Association, and which resulted in a book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. While she was generally sympathetic to her subjects (and could not have gained access to them otherwise), Goffman ran into a firestorm of criticism, partly because she reported unflattering things about black people, and partly because she did what was necessary to gain access, including destroying some of her notes that could have implicated some of her subjects.

Now, as a liberal highly sympathetic to black people, she is under fire as racist and disqualified from writing about her chosen subject area, simply because of her race.



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