After Tiffany C. Martínez, a sociology major at Suffolk University in Boston, was called out in front of her senior seminar and accused of copying parts of an assigned literature review, she voiced her frustration in a blog post titled, “Academia, Love Me Back.”
For Ms. Martínez the phrase uttered by her professor, “This is not your language,” wasn’t just a comment about potential plagiarism, it was a microaggression — a comment about her identity as a Latina.
