For minority students and scholars, working in academe can be isolating and frustrating, especially when they feel like there’s no place to talk about the issues they face. To give a voice to those frustrations, William J. Richardson, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Northwestern University, started a Twitter campaign calling on other academics to share examples of racism in the academy. The campaign’s hashtag, #TheseAcademicHands, made its debut on Sunday night — and comes from the phrase "throwing hands," which is slang for fighting. The phrase also suggests a sense of frustration, as in throwing your hands up in the air.