Dismantling Constructs of Whiteness in Higher Education
Narratives of Resistance from the Academy
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Book Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
Editor(s)
Biography
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.