Confronting institutionalized racism in higher education : counternarratives for racial justice

Ramdeholl, Dianne (author.). Jones, Jaye, (author.).

Summary: "This book chronicles the experiences of faculty at predominantly white higher education institutions (PWI) by centering voices of racialized faculty across North America. Drawing on Critical Race Theory and critical, feminist, and auto-ethnographic approaches, the text analyzes narratives, situating people's words in a landscape of institutionalized racism within higher education. In order to support newer under-represented faculty, administrators committed to supporting faculty, and doctoral students interested in a future in higher education, the book offers strategies and implications for institutional reform and anti-racist faculty organizing/survival in academia. Despite claims by university administrations about commitments to diversity, this book demonstrates otherwise, offering counter-narratives from racialized faculty members who share their struggles"--

Record details

ISBN: 0367699826 (Paperback)
ISBN: 9780367699826 (Paperback)
Physical Description: xii, 132 pages ; 24 cm
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Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Speaking truth to power : institutionalized racism in the academy -- Teaching while Brown/Black : racism all day everyday -- Stonewalling and gaslighting : how higher education continues to shortchange faculty -- Facing the gauntlet : racialized faculty navigate tenure and promotion -- Making the road by walking : the formation of a racialized faculty caucus -- Self-care as political warfare : racialized women's survival in the academy -- White privilege, white supremacy, white resentment : how racialized faculty get invisibilized and how to organize against it -- Manifesting new realities : the university the way it could be.