Stories from the Front of the Room by Michelle Harris, Sherri... - 9781475825169

Stories from the Front of the RoomHow Higher Education Faculty of Color Overcome Challenges and Thrive in the Academy\nAuthor(s): Michelle Harris, Sherrill L. Sellers, Orly Clerge, Frederick W. Gooding Jr.\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781475825169, 978-1475825169\nSynopsis\nResearch demonstrates that faculty of color in historically white institutions experience higher levels of discrimination, cultural taxation, and emotional labor than their white colleagues. Despite efforts to recruit minority faculty, all of these factors undermine their scholarship, pedagogy, social experiences, promotion and retention. This edited volume builds upon the existing research on faculty of color, however, it also departs from the existing literature and unravels the socio-emotional experiences of being in front of the classroom, in labs, and in the Ivory Tower for faculty who are in multiple racialized social loc.