Doesn't add up: Professor says college math is ‘white,’ ‘cisheteropatriarchal’

Back in school, math was my least favorite and most troublesome subject. But it seems like I ought to take another look: I’ve just learned that math is “white” and “cisheteropatriarchal,” just like me!

That’s the conclusion of Vanderbilt U. education professor Luis Antonio Leyva (he/him/él). According to the invaluable College Fix, Leyva delivered a lecture at a big-time mathematics meeting in Boston in January. The lecture, according a tweet from Leyva, “was based on my research interrogating undergraduate math education as a white, cisheteropatriarchal space.”

The College Fix helpfully explains that “cisheteropatriarchal” refers to “a system of male, straight, conforming-to-assigned sex system power.” Well, duh.

[I think you should automatically get an “A” in this cretin’s class if you can say his made-up “C” word five times fast. That would be an equitable outcome. ~ Beege]