ABSTRACT
Critical Womyn of Color education scholars critique and dismantle intersectional oppressions in order to create equitable educational spaces, opportunities, and outcomes. This justice-oriented intersectional praxis is a process and an ongoing goal that addresses acts of inequity at individual, institutional, and ideological levels. Hegemonic civility is thus engaged to prevent us from “naming injustice, holding each other accountable for injustice, or from enacting principles of equity and justice as these creep into consciousness”. Academic freedom forms the foundation of faculty and student rights to intellectual pursuits, as knowledge producers, teachers, and learners. This chapter presents the analyses as Chronicles of Evisceration following the use of chronicles in critical race research to make the historical, socio-cultural and political realities of the lives of people of color accessible. Hegemonic civility, or fake niceness, manifests as performances of open-mindedness, patriarchal protections, and allyship.
