Presumed incompetent II : race, class, power, and resistance of women in academia / Yolanda Flores Niemann, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, and Carmen G. González.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Niemann, Yolanda Flores, editor.

Gutiérrez y Muhs, Gabriella, editor.

Gonzalez, Carmen G., 1962- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority women college teachers--United States.

Minority women college teachers.

Minority women college teachers--Social conditions.

Sex discrimination in higher education--United States.

Sex discrimination in higher education.

Racism in higher education--United States.

Racism in higher education.

Women in higher education--United States.

Women in higher education.

Feminism and higher education--United States.

Feminism and higher education.

Women college teachers--United States.

Women college teachers.

Minority college teachers--United States.

Minority college teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

Logan, [Utah] : Utah State University Press, 2020.

Summary:

The courageous and inspiring personal narratives and empirical studies in Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia name formidable obstacles and systemic biases that all women faculty-from diverse intersectional and transnational identities and from tenure track, terminal contract, and administrative positions-encounter in their higher education careers. They provide practical, specific, and insightful guidance to fight back, prevail, and thrive in challenging work environments. This new volume comes at a crucial historical moment as the United States grapples with a resurgence of white supremacy and misogyny at the forefront of our social and political dialogues that continue to permeate the academic world. Contributors: Marcia Allen Owens, Sarah Amira de la Garza, Sahar Aziz, Jacquelyn Bridgeman, Jamiella Brooks, Lolita Buckner Inniss, Kim Case, Donna Castaneda, Julia Chang, Meredith Clark, Meera Deo, Penelope Espinoza, Yvette Flores, Lynn Fujiwara, Jennifer Gomez, Angela Harris, Dorothy Hines, Rachelle Joplin, Jessica Lavariega Monforti, Cynthia Lee, Yessenia Manzo, Melissa Michelson, Susie E. Nam, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Jodi O'Brien, Amelia Ortega, Laura Padilla, Grace Park, Stacey Patton, Desdamona Rios, Melissa Michal Slocum, Nellie Tran, Rachel Tudor, Pamela Tywman Hoff, Adrien Wing, Jemimah Li Young.

Contents:

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword: Presumed Incompetent in the Era of "Diversity" Acknowledgments Introduction Section 1: Tenure and Promotion 1. "Still I Rise" 2. The Lucky Law Professor and the Eucatastrophic Moment 3. Tenure with a Termination Letter 4. Picked to Pieces: The Cost of Opportunity 5. Surviving a Difficult Tenure Process: Tips for Junior Faculty of Color 6. They See Us, but They Don't Really See Us 7. Promotion while Pregnant and Black Section 2: Academic Leadership 8. Senior Chicana Feminist Scholars: Some Notes on Survival in Hostile Contexts 9. Can I Charge My Therapy to the University? 10. Racial Harm in a Predominantly White "Liberal" University: An Institutional Autoethnography of White Fragility 11. Presumptions of Incompetence, Gender Sidelining, and Women Law Deans Section 3: Social Class 12. Unlikely Alliances from Appalachia to East L.A.: Insider Without and Outsider Within 13. Academia Is Violence: Generatives from a First-Generation, Low-Income PhD Mother of Color 14. Silent Bias and Resisting Narratives of Deficit: Social Class and Poverty in the Academy 15. They Don't Call It Work for Nothing: Navigating Classism in Academic Relationships Section 4: Bullying, White Fragility, and Microaggressions 16. Making Visible the Dead Bodies in the Room: Women of Color/QPOC in Academia 17. The Alpha Female and the Sinister Seven 18. Mindful Heresy as Praxis for Change: Responding to Microaggressions as Building Blocks of Hegemony 19. Exposure to Discrimination, Cultural Betrayal, and Intoxication as a Black Female Graduate Student Applying for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions 20. Through a White Woman's Tears: Fragility, Guilt, and the Journey toward Allyship 21. And Still We Rise 22. Closet Chair and Committee Side Piece: Black Women STEM Faculty at HBCUs 23. In Name Only: A Principal Investigator's Struggle for Authority Section 5: Activism, Resistance, and Public Engagement 24. Spectacular Bodies: Racism, Pregnancy, and the Code of Silence in Academe 25. Hashtag: Social Media as a Source for Developing Community 26. My Tenure Denial 27. In Lak'ech: The Interconnectedness between Faculty and Students of Color 28. Securing Support in an Unequal Profession 29. Healing Is Speaking: Stories Evolving Perceptions of Microaggressions, Abuse, and Racial Battle Fatigue-The Good Mind in Action 30. The Social Ecology of Tokenism in Higher Education Institutions 31. Why I Clap Back against Racist Trolls Who Attack Black Women Academics 32. Unconquered and Unconquerable: A Chickasaw Woman's Quest for Tenure Afterword About the Authors Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-60732-966-2

OCLC:

1139028625