The violence of merit
Abstract
This essay examines how, in the academy, the language of merit is used to discipline and conform bodies to the standards set up to uphold conditions benefiting whiteness. Therefore, the violence of merit is one of the ways whiteness reasserts itself.
Publication Title
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research
Recommended Citation
Levina, M. (2020). The violence of merit. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 9 (1), 20-24. https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.1.20
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