<p>In Florida, an Anit-Woke statute encourages college and university students to secretly record faculty and other students for purposes of civil and criminal ligation regarding speech. Tenure as we know it has been eliminated. A federal judge has declared in a formal injunction that the state’s behavior is “dystopian.” In Florida, the list of attacks on higher education by the state is long. This discussion explains the resulting intimidation of faculty in Florida public higher education in terms of identity and stereotype threat theory. Also, through this conceptual lens, the discussion answers the question, what can I do? The answer is to counter identity and stereotype threat cues with identity safety cues. The discussion emphasizes a face-to-face activism in which I communicate to people with whom I interact that I am genuinely curious and appreciative of ways in which they are different from me. The setting in which we could enact this embedded form of activism are the everyday environments that we inhabit and in which we may have immediate influence. As a university professor, I use the example of a course. The discussion closes with student voices that suggest the outcomes of this approach.</p>

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Inclusion Overcomes Intimidation: Toward Identity Safety

  • Douglas L. Robertson

摘要

In Florida, an Anit-Woke statute encourages college and university students to secretly record faculty and other students for purposes of civil and criminal ligation regarding speech. Tenure as we know it has been eliminated. A federal judge has declared in a formal injunction that the state’s behavior is “dystopian.” In Florida, the list of attacks on higher education by the state is long. This discussion explains the resulting intimidation of faculty in Florida public higher education in terms of identity and stereotype threat theory. Also, through this conceptual lens, the discussion answers the question, what can I do? The answer is to counter identity and stereotype threat cues with identity safety cues. The discussion emphasizes a face-to-face activism in which I communicate to people with whom I interact that I am genuinely curious and appreciative of ways in which they are different from me. The setting in which we could enact this embedded form of activism are the everyday environments that we inhabit and in which we may have immediate influence. As a university professor, I use the example of a course. The discussion closes with student voices that suggest the outcomes of this approach.