ABSTRACT
NOT ALL MINORITY GROUPS POSSESS the same standing and regard from the dominant group in power. Immigrant minorities, inside and outside academia, frequently enjoy higher status in the eyes of the majority group than do internal colonized minorities who are in this country because of force, not choice. This chapter will discuss how and why colonized minorities face greater disadvantages inside and outside academia. Again, I believe it is critically important that senior administrators and faculty attend to the different cultural contexts and histories inhabited by their new faculty hires and indeed by all their colleagues and students. Only willful naïveté would permit one to think that everyone is dealt the same context and status.
