Jason Arday has a tell. Like many gestures, it conveys something beyond the statement itself—a silent way of saying, “Isn’t it obvious?” It’s an assumption that all would agree with what he’s saying, but don’t for some reason (as in, racism, classism, ism-ism). But he is nonetheless a symptom of academia’s dehumanization of black scholars and willingness to accept intellectual mediocrity in its self-seeking pursuit of virtue. The main theme of Arday’s work is that racism is grievously determinative in the lives of black Britons; his PhD dissertation describes racism that black scholars must grapple with endlessly.