When a black scholar becomes a symbol: The Jason Arday controversy, By Toyin Falola
Jason Arday’s story matters not only because of what happened to one scholar but because it forces us to examine the conditions under which certain people enter institutions of authority.
The second question is therefore inescapable: In that the Arday affair was not just about one person’s conduct but also about the processes through which academic authority is constructed, assessed and defended, then how are those processes determined?
She raised this question on the grounds of consistency within institutions: If academic legitimacy is argued so strongly in one case, then is it not reasonable to raise similar questions in another?
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