ABSTRACT
Women of color (defined as women who are American Indian [Native], African American, Latina, Asian American, or a mixture of these) who are in academia face challenges specific to their gender and race, and to the combination of these two qualities. These challenges exist through all phases of the academic process: recruitment, retention, junior faculty expectations, publication, the peer review and merit review processes, progress toward tenure, promotion, senior faculty expectations, and retirement. The challenges include the dual impact of institutional racism and sexism; how differences in teaching and communication style can influence the perceptions of students and other faculty; and facing the reality that faculty of color, responding to their own internalized oppression, sometimes hold higher expectations for people of color than they do for others or for themselves.
