Stories from the Front of the Room (eBook)

How Higher Education Faculty of Color Overcome Challenges and Thrive in the Academy

Orly Clerge, Frederick W. Gooding, Michelle Harris, Sherrill L. Sellers (Autoren)

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2017
160 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-2518-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book focuses on the boundaries which faculty of color encounter in everyday experiences on campus and presents a more complete picture of life in the academy - one that documents how faculty of color are tested, but also how they can not only overcome, but thrive in their respective educational institutions.

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Research demonstrates that faculty of color in historically white institutions experience higher levels of discrimination, cultural taxation, and emotional labor than their white colleagues. Despite efforts to recruit minority faculty, all of these factors undermine their scholarship, pedagogy, social experiences, promotion and retention. This edited volume builds upon the existing research on faculty of color, however, it also departs from the existing literature and unravels the socio-emotional experiences of being in front of the classroom, in labs, and in the Ivory Tower for faculty who are in multiple racialized social locations. In an effort to circulate the experiences of faculty of color more widely to academic and non-academic audiences, this edited volume replaces conventional scholarly technical papers with unconventionally accessible letters. Stories from the Front of the Room focuses on the boundaries which faculty of color encounter in everyday experiences on campus and presents a more complete picture of life in the academy - one that documents how faculty of color are tested, but also how they can not only overcome, but thrive in their respective educational institutions.

Autor

Michelle Harris is a sociologist who directs the Institute for Global Indigeneity. She is also a Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. Harris has written on acculturation and stress among immigrant Americans and how racial discrimination affects the mental health and well-being of blacks in the United States. Her most recent scholarship explores the politics of indigenous identity.Sherrill L. Sellers is a Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Education, Health & Society at Miami University in Oxford OH. She studies the mental and physical health consequences of social inequalities; intersections of race, genetics, and health; and aging and the life course.Orly Clerge is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Africana Studies at Tufts University in Medford, MA. She is broadly interested in the areas of race and ethnicity, immigration and migration, urban sociology and social demography.Frederick W. Gooding, Jr. is an Assistant Professor within the Ethnic Studies Program at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. A trained historian, Gooding most effectively analyzes contemporary mainstream media with a careful eye for persistent patterns along racial lines that appear benign but indeed have problematic historical roots.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction to the volumeOrly Clerge, Frederick Gooding, Jr., Michelle Harris, Sherrill L. SellersPART I: Colleagues Part I Introduction: highlights of research literature on colleagues and faculty of colorChapter 1: Dear Fellow Underrepresented Junior Faculty Members Pamela Harris & Alicia Prieto LangaricaChapter 2: Dear Colleagues Matthew OwareChapter 3: Dear Mentor AnonymousChapter 4: Dear Colleague JeffriAnne WilderChapter 5: Dear Nicole (A Note to Nicole on Becoming Tax-free) Tamika CareyChapter 6: To My Esteemed Colleagues and Inquisitive Students Carlotta A. BerryChapter 7: Mentor Essay: Standing Firm upon Unsteady GroundAlford Young PART II: Students Part II Introduction: Research exploring bias in student ratings of teachersChapter 8: An Open Letter to the Black Woman in the Front Row Jennifer SimsChapter 9: Dear Black and Racialized StudentsDelores MullingsChapter 10: Dear Fellow Front of the Room AcademiciansKhadijah MillerChapter 11: In Solidarity, Dear StudentVivian Ng Chapter 12: Mentor Essays: Don’t Forget to Reflect on and Fight Your Own Biases Mary Pattillo PART III: Tenure Part III Introduction: literature on teaching, research and serviceChapter 13: Love & Labor in Academia: Dear Faculty Members Who Mentor Doctoral Students of ColorAmeena Ghaffar-KucherChapter 14: Dear Friends and ColleaguesJose SantosChapter 15: Being in the Room: Dear ColleaguesSonja LanehartChapter 16: Liberation and the Denial of an Academic Career: Dear Colleagues AnonymousChapter 17: Mentor Essay: TenureJuan Battle PART IV: Administration Part IV Introduction: Literature on administrative contexts with focus on recruitment and retentionChapter 18: Dear University Hiring Committees and Administrators Amanishakete AniChapter 19: Racing It in Academia: Dear Director of the School of Social Work Patrina DuhaneyChapter 20: Dear Lex Teresa GilliamsChapter 21: Dear Unsupported Faculty “Teaching in Color” Chavella PittmanChapter 22: Dear Chief Diversity Officers: Pedigree or Ph.D.? Or, "You Can't Handle the Truth." David HernándezChapter 23: Mentor Essay:Reflections on Higher Ed AdministrationHarvey Charles PART V: ClimatePART IV Introduction: Major themes in the research on faculty of color and campus climateChapter 24: Good Muslims and White Academics: Dear Directors Uzma JamilChapter 25: Hello, Black Women’s Lives (Don’t) Matter in the Academy Lani V. JonesChapter 26: Dear Junior Scholar Danne E. DavisChapter 27: A Letter from the Ivory Tower Andrea G. HunterChapter 28: Mentor Essay: The TalkEduardo Bonilla-Silva AfterwordAbout the editorsAbout the contributorsIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.2.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-2518-8 / 1475825188
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-2518-3 / 9781475825183