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Op-ed on the disjunct between academics and their communities

Nicholas Kristof's blog post about his article "Professors, we need you!". Seems to have a lively conversation in the comments section.

"Try reading any academic text from your local women's studies, ethnic studies, post-colonial studies, or anthropology department. The texts are almost always written so that only academics can understand. Some students and scholars call it "acadamese." It is writing that needs to be decoded before it can be understood. This is what inaccessible language looks like in academic texts written about oppressed groups, but not for them."

This strikes me as the kind of article we ought to invite for commenting, review, and publication. If this could be improved without devolving into "academese" (as she calls it), it would be a great article.