ABSTRACT

Survival for marginalized folks requires communication skills and understanding power dynamics in ways that often result in polite and/or civil discourse. This essay examines how we survive through politeness, the consequences of such politeness, and how politeness is policed through power structures in academia that relate to privilege, merit, tokenism, whiteness, maleness, straightness, and other forms of power.

中文翻译：

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不断的文明作为灵魂的腐蚀：在礼貌政治中生存并超越

摘要

边缘化人的生存需要交流技巧，并以通常会引起礼貌和/或民间话语的方式理解力量动态。本文探讨了我们如何通过礼貌生存，这种礼貌的后果，以及如何通过学术界与特权，功绩，象征主义，白人，男性，直率和其他形式的权力有关的权力结构来管理礼貌。