This book offers counternarratives from People of Color (POC) engaged in varied departments, faculties, and institutions in higher education to interrogate and challenge the construct of whiteness as an ideological form reproduced across campuses throughout the United States.
Documenting individuals’ lived experiences, the text uses narratives, personal stories, and autoethnographic approaches to explore how social and racial injustices manifest themselves at both a macro- and micro-level through structures and ideologies of whiteness, as well as personal and group interactions. This book, divided into four valuable parts, offers reconceptualizations of racial diversity in higher education, and further explores identity politics within the academy to ultimately posit that a varied approach is necessary to combat the equally varied ideological forms of whiteness.
This text will benefit scholars, academics, and students in the fields of higher education, race and ethnicity studies, and academic librarianship more broadly. Those involved with the multicultural education, education policy and politics, and equality and human rights in general will also benefit from this volume.
Introduction: unmasking the personal, professional, and intersectional interstices of whiteness in higher education Margie Montañez and Teresa Y. Neely Part I: Foregrounding whiteness as a social structure in higher education Chapter 1: Justice in action in the ivory towers: decolonial and anti-racist work inside/outside the master’s house Eric Castillo Chapter 2: sketching otherwise im/possibilities: meditations against and beyond the state nicholae cline and Jorge R. López-McKnight Chapter 3: Vital elements in the deconstruction of whiteness and eurocentrism in higher education work settings J. E. Jamal Martin Chapter 4: Pervasive whiteness vs. black women in academia Sheryl Felecia Means Chapter 5: Microaffections and microaffirmations: refusing to reproduce whiteness via microaffirmative actions Isabel Espinal Part II: The case of academic libraries Chapter 6: Why are you Brown? Racial microaggressions in Canadian academic libraries Dee Winn Chapter 7: I don’t know if I’m surviving, but I’m still here: Reflections on 20-plus years in academic librarianship Nikhat J. Ghouse Chapter 8: Same scat, different century: An [unremarkable] history of inaction in US libraries and archives Deborah R. Hollis Part III: Erasures, absences, silences, and violence in higher education Chapter 9: Threefer: Poetic reflections on resistance to misogynoir Belinda Deneen Wallace Chapter 10: Is the door half-opened or half-closed? Advancing a career after Black Culture Center work Brandi Wells-Stone Chapter 11: African American male faculty: A study of their experiences related to intercultural competence at predominantly white institutions Hervey A. Taylor III Chapter 12: The life of a Black college athlete Keon R. Williams Chapter 13: They took my hair—racial battle fatigue in academe: Accounts from the plantation Evangela Q. Oates Chapter 14: Scholar while Black: Theorizing race-gender micro/macroaggressions as covert racist actions for maintaining white domination in academia in a “Post-Racial” Society Michael Muhammad and Nancy López Part IV: Identity Politics Chapter 15: Exterior college campus Derrick Jefferson Chapter 16: Decolonizing our hearts and our minds Nicole A. Cooke Chapter 17: Merit, gate keeping, and the myth of meritocracy Stephanie Akau Chapter 18: Home is where you are: An open letter to my academic Auntie TeyAnjulee Leon Chapter 19: Road trip: Heavy luggage and the doctoral HBCU experience LaKeshia Darden
Teresa Y. Neely is Professor of Librarianship at the University of New Mexico, USA. Margie Montañez is Assistant Professor and Curator of Latin American collections at the University of New Mexico, USA.
