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Maids of Academe: African American Women Faculty at Predominately White Institutions
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In this article, the disproportionate role African American women assume in service, teaching, and research as a result of being in the numerical minority at predominantly white institutions is discussed, and recommendations are presented to assist African African women faculty, and administrators, colleagues, and students at PWIs to understand and improve the climate at their institutions.Abstract:
The presence of African American women at predominantly white institutions is one of historical relevance and continues to be one of first, near misses, and almosts. Individually and collectively, African American women at PWIs suffer from a form of race fatigue as a result of being over extended and undervalued. The purpose of this article is to present the disproportionate role African American women assume in service, teaching, and research as a result of being in the numerical minority at PWIs. Information is presented to provide an overview on racism in the academy, images and portrayals, psychosocial, spiritual, and legal issues for African American women faculty. Finally recommendations are presented to assist African American women faculty, and administrators, colleagues, and students at PWIs to understand and improve the climate at their institutions.read more
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Faculty women of color: The critical nexus of race and gender.
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Historically White Universities and Plantation Politics: Anti-Blackness and Higher Education in the Black Lives Matter Era:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that U.S. colleges and universities must grapple with persistent engagements of Black bodies as property and engage the research and scholarship on Black faculty, engaging them in Black studies.
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Stressing Out: Connecting Race, Gender, and Stress with Faculty Productivity
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TL;DR: The authors used multilevel modeling to analyze data from a national sample of full-time, undergraduate faculty at four-year institutions to examine the connections among race, gender, sources of stress and productivity in the areas of research, teaching, and service.
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Marginalizing Merit?: Gender Differences in Black Faculty D/discourses on Tenure, Advancement, and Professional Success
TL;DR: The authors used discourse analysis to analyze the narratives of 28 Black professors employed at two research universities and found that faculty perceive race and gender influencing their evaluations for academic advancement, with key gender distinctions in discourses about teaching and service in relation to professional success.
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Black/Female/Body Hypervisibility and Invisibility: A Black Feminist Augmentation of Feminist Leisure Research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose two concepts for Black feminist analysis (visibility and hypervisibility) to augment feminist leisure scholarship, and examine questions of invoicing and privilege.
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