ABSTRACT

This book chronicles the experiences of faculty at predominantly white higher education institutions (PWI) by centering voices of racialized faculty across North America. Drawing on Critical Race Theory and critical, feminist, and auto-ethnographic approaches, the text analyzes those narratives, situating people’s words in a landscape of institutionalized racism within higher education. In order to support newer under-represented faculty, administrators committed to supporting faculty, and doctoral students interested in a future in higher education, the book offers strategies and implications for institutional reform and anti-racist faculty organizing/survival in academia. Despite claims by university administrations about commitments to diversity, this book demonstrates otherwise, offering counter-narratives from racialized faculty members who share their struggles.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|9 pages

Speaking Truth to Power

Institutionalized Racism in the Academy

chapter 2|10 pages

Teaching While Brown/Black

Racism All Day Everyday

chapter 3|14 pages

Stonewalling and Gaslighting

How Higher Education Continues to Shortchange Faculty

chapter 4|14 pages

Facing the Gauntlet

Racialized Faculty Navigate Tenure and Promotion

chapter 5|10 pages

Making the Road by Walking

The Formation of a Racialized Faculty Caucus

chapter 6|10 pages

Self-Care as Political Warfare

Racialized Women's Survival in the Academy

chapter 7|13 pages

White Privilege, White Supremacy, White Resentment

How Racialized Faculty Get Invisibilized and How to Organize Against It

chapter 8|22 pages

Manifesting New Realities

The University the Way It Could Be