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When academic collaborators navigate different relationships to scholarly objectivity

My research partner and I are both academics of color studying race and education, but we come from different backgrounds and sometimes what I see as necessary political clarity, they see as too activist for academic credibility. We're writing a paper together and every draft surfaces this tension.

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Two people sharing intellectual work are operating with different theories about the relationship between knowledge and advocacy.

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