Full Description
A collection of essays that provides advice and strategies for BIPOC scholars on how to survive, thrive, and resist in academic institutions.
Conditionally Accepted builds upon an eponymous blog on InsideHigherEd.com, which is now a decade-old national platform for BIPOC academics in the United States. Bringing together perspectives from academics of color on navigating intersecting forms of injustice in the academy, each chapter offers situated knowledge about experiencing-and resisting-marginalization in academia. Contextualized within existing scholarship, these personal narratives speak to institutional betrayals while highlighting agency and sharing stories of surviving on treacherous terrain. Covering topics from professional development to the emptiness of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, and redefining what it means to be an academic in our contemporary moment, this edited collection directly confronts issues of systemic exclusion, discrimination, harassment, microaggressions, tokenism, and surveillance. Letting marginalized scholars know they are not alone, Conditionally Accepted offers concrete wisdom for readers seeking to navigate and transform oppressive academic institutions.
Contents
Introduction (Eric Joy Denise and Bertin M. Louis Jr.)
PART I. Navigating Our Way within (or Out of) Academia
Navigating the Africana Studies Joint Faculty Position (N. Fadeke Castor and Bertin M. Louis, Jr.)
From Associate to Full Professor (Keisha N. Blain)
Don't Sell Yourself Short: Starting Your Own Business as an Academic (Manya Whitaker)
The Unbearable Whiteness of Economics: An Interview with Gary "Hoov" Hoover
Conditional, but Essential, Contingency (Kelly Fong)
A Black Woman's Journey from Academia to the Community: An Interview with Alisha Winn, Applied Anthropologist
PART II. Disciplinary and Institutional Betrayals
Institutional Betrayals: The Costs Are High (Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt)
Conditionally Invisible: Indigenous Invisibilization in US Academia (Robin Starr Minthorn)
The Institutional Othering of Disability: A Graduate Student's Perspective on Ableism in Higher Education (Sarah Manchanda)
Dealing with Sexual Harassment as a Junior Black Woman Scholar (Shantel Gabrieal Buggs)
Denied Tenure: To Be Conditionally Unaccepted (Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder)
PART III. Diversity Rhetoric and Empty Promises
This Is Your Pipeline Problem: The Far-Reaching Effects of the Mistreatment of Senior Faculty of Color (Amelia Gibson)
Faculty of Color and the Changing University (Adia Harvey Wingfield)
From Good Intentions to Inclusive Behaviors: Achieving the Diversity Goals We Profess in Academia (Neil Anthony Lewis Jr.)
Dismantling Whiteness in Academia (Salvador Vidal-Ortiz)
PART IV. Transforming the Academy and Beyond
Becoming a Chicano Scholar-Activist: Key Lessons and Takeaways (Álvaro Huerta)
Why I Write for the Public (Victor Erik Ray)
The Price of Sanctuary at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (Aimee Villarreal)
Embracing Scholar-Activism as Legitimate Academic Work (Eric Joy Denise)
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index
