Elwood Watson is a professor of history, Black American studies, and gender and sexuality studies at East Tennessee State University and a syndicated columnist with Cagle Syndicate. He is the author of Keepin’ It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America, published by the University of Chicago Press. He is on Twitter @bleachbred and on LinkedIn.
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How you cope with the morass of academic politics will be different depending on the person, the department, and the institution.