The Case Against Exoticism

Shah, Vidya

doi:10.4324/9780429327780-9

Critical Approaches Toward a Cosmopolitan Education 2021

DOI: 10.4324/9780429327780-9

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The Case Against Exoticism

Vidya Shah¹

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“…There are many policy links throughout the memoir -the need for BIPOC-only campus spaces, as mentioned above; the need for universities to develop stronger anti-racism and sexual violence policies, to implement real consequences for offenders, and to take a stronger stance on acts of violence that occur in their broader communities; the need for the collection of identity-based data to advance racial justice (Shah, 2021); the gap in Canadian law that leaves hate crimes unprosecuted; and the ability of policy, in the wrong hands, to oppress, control, and punish racialized victims (Abawi & Brady, 2017;Cherubini, 2010). In her analysis of university actions and outcomes related to hate crimes on campus and to Bill 132, Martis illustrates the ways in which non-performativity -the use of policy to simply 'check a box' CJEAP, 202 and avoid liability (Rezai-Rashti et al, 2021) -manifests in university administrations.…”

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At the outset of her memoir, Eternity Martis promises a book for: Anyone, past or present, who has struggled to make sense of their post-secondary experiences. For those of you who feel alone and unheard. For those of you who want to learn more, and for those of you who courageously speak up and tell your stories, even in the face of denial and harassment. And this book is especially for those of you who came out at the other end, broken but not beat, resilient but still soft. (Martis, 2020, pp. 17-18) She delivers. The text is educational, courageous, and timeless, for better or for worse. Martis' debut focuses primarily on her experience as a multiracial Black woman in London, Ontario at the University of Western Ontario, colloquially known as Western. A quick -but not so easy -read, Martis effectively packs in layers of reflections on navigating identity and learning to love oneself; racism, misogynoir, and the rise of the alt-right on Canadian university campuses, the over-policing and under-protection that Black people experience in Canada; sexual and intimate partner violence amongst university populations; and the insidious nature of white feminism, while maintaining connection to her deeply personal narrative.Equal parts devastating, touching, and funny, Martis balances her own brave testimony with well-researched facts, flexing her journalistic background. She weaves narrative with theory, touching on bell hooks' theories of marginality and eating the Other, W.E.B. Du Bois' double consciousness, Audre Lorde's uses of anger, and epistemic violence in education (Battiste, 2013; Diallo, 2018). Tongue-incheek interludes entitled The Necessary Survival Guide for Token Students break up chapters, providing witty takes on the microaggressions that Black and other racialized people are peppered with on a daily basis, such as being followed in stores or dismissed to the discount rack: "channel your inner Oprah -you will not let anyone take you to the rack of shame, even if that's all you can afford [nobody puts Baby in the back rack!]" (Martis, 2020, p. 513-14).The multiple, insidious manifestations of racism on campus are the focus of the book. Martis recounts incidents ranging from overt aggression -coming face-to-face with a white supremacist -to the more quotidian -the inability to hail a cab as quickly as her white male companion. A strength of her writing is its ability to convey the moral injury -the spirit murder (Collins, 2002) -that all acts of racism contribute to, overt or covert. Martis explains the role that universities play in upholding racism, whether overtly, in the case of J. Phillippe Rushton, who conducted racist and eugenicist pseudoscientific research and was employed by Western until his death in 2012, or covertly, in the repeated failure of university administrations to adequately deal with reported incidents. Universities are further complicit in the perpetuation of white supremacy because white students rarely experience consequences in the wake of racist actions: "universities are s...

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