ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses how the same white logic also dictates sociologists behavior and perceptions producing a different 'opportunity structure' for Whites and non-Whites in academia. It highlights personal experiences in conjunction with supporting quantitative and qualitative evidence, to effectively transform the authorial 'I' to the existential 'we'. The chapter then focuses on graduate life because 'graduate experience is an anticipatory socialization into higher education faculty role'. It provides examples of how a practice works for faculty and graduate students and points out practices that affect faculty exclusively. The chapter also outlines strategies to survive and to fight against racial domination in sociology departments. Finally, it concludes with some perhaps Utopian views on how to remake the sociological house and the sociological imagination as truly multicultural, democratic, and progressive. The racial innocence of white graduate students is typical of post-civil rights racial discourse.
