Stories from the Front of the Room
How Higher Education Faculty of Color Overcome Challenges and Thrive in the Academy
By (author) Michelle Harris, Sherrill L. Sellers, Orly Clerge, Frederick W. Gooding
Publication date:
08 February 2017Length of book:
176 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781475825169
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.
A real-world, up-close look inside the everyday reality of working in historically white Academia, as seen by its most astute observers—the faculty of color who must cope, survive, leave, and thrive in a pervasive white-racist environment.