ABSTRACT
This chapter captures author's academic experiences as a Caribbean immigrant female scholar who lives on the margin of an outsider-within status in academic settings. Collins sociological analysis of outsider-within refers to the experiences of African American women during slavery who were privy to the most intimate secrets of White society but remained outsiders in spite of their insider relationships. For Caribbean female scholars, while many are able to access both White and Black society, because they occupy the subgroup of foreignborn minorities, their acceptance may be marked by an otherness labeling that seeks to marginalize them. The chapter draws upon an auto-ethnography approach to chronicle for development as a scholar who embodies the outsider-within status in academic spaces. In studying my professional journey as a Caribbean immigrant scholar in US academic institutions, It also narrate experiences, as well as some of the ways in which the challenge and circumvent situations that are encountered in the academy.
