Mentoring Faculty of Color: Essays on Professional Development and Advancement in Colleges and Universities
Mentoring Faculty of Color: Essays on Professional Development and Advancement in Colleges and Universities
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指导色彩学院：关于学院和大学专业发展和进步的论文
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指导教师的颜色：论文的专业发展和进步在高校作者：德韦恩·麦克，埃尔伍德D.沃森，和米歇尔·马德森卡马乔，编辑。MCFARLAND出版社2013价格：42.75美元ISBN: 0786470488《有色人种导师：高校专业发展与进步论文》是密歇根大学2008年终身教职案例的最佳读物。那一年，所有申请美国文化项目终身职位的有色人种女性都被拒绝了。在该系列的介绍中，Dwayne Mack等人讨论了贡献者Andrea Mitchell的案例，并认为对她的终身教职的否认“代表了对她的美国原住民传统、她的女权主义奖学金和她的反暴力行动主义的拒绝”（第1页）。尽管大学终身教职被拒几乎没有受到全国的关注，但密歇根大学的案件引发了请愿书、抗议信和学生的愤怒，导致了一次为期一天的会议，邀请了安吉拉·戴维斯和弗雷德·莫滕等名人参加。这次会议让全国有色人种的教师明白，他们所经历的微侵犯不是道听途说，而是系统性的。密歇根大学的案例也标志着有关高等教育中有色人种教师经历的书籍和选集的结构和基调的转变。在密歇根大学之前的选集，如克里斯汀·斯坦利的《有色人种学院：白人学院和大学的教学》（2006），斯蒂芬妮·埃文斯的《象牙塔中的黑人女性：1850-1954》（2007），黛博拉·格雷·怀特等人的《讲述历史：象牙塔中的黑人女性历史学家》（2008），提供了历史，见证了少数民族教师面临的问题。那些在2008年之后开始的项目有一种更大的紧迫感和毫不掩饰的挫败感，比如：辛西娅·科尔·罗宾逊和波琳·克拉迪编辑的《乏味的旅程：有色人种女性的自我民族志》（2010）；学院中的种族主义：新千年——由美国人类学协会人类学中的种族和种族主义委员会出版的论文集（2010年）；加布里埃拉·古铁雷斯等人的《假定的无能：学术界女性种族和阶级的交集》（2013），这是一本充满挫折的大部头。所有的藏品都反映了对高等教育对教师的结构性敌意的理解，但“有色人种指导学院”将这种结构性敌意作为一个跨越多个学科、院系和机构的问题呈现出来。与2008年之前的作品相比，这本合集用更少的批评和历史缓冲来解决这个问题，而且与《假定无能》（suppose无能）不同，《有色人种女性指导学院》的目的是解释有色人种女性面临的无数挑战，而《有色人种女性指导学院》更侧重于提供叙事，作为如何应对这些挑战的典范。它不仅是有色人种教员的入门手册，也是系主任、院长和教务长的入门手册。它不仅提供了那些成功人士的鸟瞰视角，还提供了作为看门人的管理人员的鸟瞰视角。这个系列的反复出现的主题是，有色人种的教师加入部门和机构，希望工作场所严谨、具有挑战性，但最终是公平的，他们相信努力工作和成绩将胜过他们必须反对的任何偏见。这并不是一个不切实际的期望，因为他们已经克服了许多障碍，获得了在学院站稳脚跟所需的最终学位。但现实往往比大多数学者所理解的要残酷，即使是那些在成为教授之前在职业生涯中经历过种族主义的有色人种学者。他们的成功策略反映在14篇个人论文中，重点关注有色人种教师被迫谈判的职业障碍和个人挑战——通常是无声的。…
Mentoring Faculty of Color: Essays on Professional Development and Advancement in Colleges and Universities AUTHOR: DWAYNE MACK, ELWOOD D. WATSON, AND MICHELLE MADSEN CAMACHO, EDS. MCFARLAND PRESS 2013 PRICE: $42.75 ISBN: 0786470488 Mentoring Faculty of Color: Essays on Professional Development and Advancement in Colleges and Universities is best read in the context of the 2008 tenure cases at the University of Michigan. That year, all of the women of color up for tenure in The Program in American Culture were denied. In the introduction to the collection, Dwayne Mack, et al discuss the case of contributor Andrea Mitchell, and argue that her tenure denial, "represented a rejection of her Native American heritage, her feminist scholarship, and her anti-violence activism" (p.1). Although university tenure denials receive little national attention, the cases at the University of Michigan sparked, petitions, letters of protest, and student outrage that lead to a one-day conference that featured such luminaries as Angela Davis and Fred Moten. The conference crystalized for faculty of color across the country that the micro-agressions they experiences were not anecdotal but were, in fact, systemic. The Michigan cases also mark a shift in the structure and tone of books and anthologies about the experiences of faculty of color in higher education. The pre-Michigan anthologies like Christine Stanley's Faculty of Color: Teaching in Predominately White Colleges and Universities (2006), Stephanie Evans's Black Women in the Ivory Tower: 1850-1954 (2007), and Deborah Gray White et al's Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (2008) offer histories and bear witness to the problems faced by minority faculty. Those projects started after 2008 have about them a greater sense of urgency and unvarnished frustration with titles like: Tedious Journeys: Autoethnography by Women of Color (2010) edited by Cynthia Cole Robinson and Pauline Clardy; Racism in the Academy: The New Millennium a collection of essays that grew out of the American Anthropological Association's Commission on Race and Racism in Anthropology (2010); and Gabriella Gutierrez's et al's Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (2013), a tome of frustration. All of the collections reflect an understanding of higher education as structurally hostile to faculty, but Mentoring Faculty of Color presents the structural hostility as a problem across multiple disciplines, departments, and institutions. The collection tackles the problem with fewer critical and historical buffers than the pre-2008 books and, unlike Presumed Incompetent, which aims to account for the myriad challenges women of color face, Mentoring Faculty of Color focuses more on offering narratives as models for how to navigate those challenges. It is a how-to-manual as much for chairs, deans, and provosts as it is for faculty of color and provides a bird's-eye view not only from those who have succeeded but by administrators who function as gatekeepers. The recurring theme of the collection is that faculty of color join departments and institutions expecting the workplace to be rigorous and challenging but ultimately fair and believe that hard work and merit will trump whatever biases they have to work against. It's not an unrealistic expectation given that they've overcome any number of obstacles to earn the required terminal degrees to gain this foothold in the academy. But the reality is often harsher than most academics understand, even academics of color who have experienced racism in their careers before joining the professoriate. Their strategies for success are reflected on in 14 personal essays that focus on professional obstacles and personal challenges that faculty of color are forced to negotiate--usually silently. …