Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia

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Presumed Incompetent II

Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia

Edited by: Yolanda Flores Niemann , Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs and Carmen G. González
Preface by: Angela P. Harris

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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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

Author / Editor information

Yolanda Flores Niemann (PhD, Psychology, University of Houston, 1992) is professor of psychology at the University of North Texas.

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs (MA and PhD Stanford University, 2000) is professor of modern languages and women studies at Seattle University.

Carmen G. González (JD, Harvard Law School, 1988) is professor of law at Seattle University.

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“This work is a powerful call to action and must read for chief diversity officers, deans, department heads, presidents, and provosts. Building on Presumed Incompetent, these are courageous and bold testimonies of racism, sexism, and bullying faced by women of color—who continue to survive and thrive, in spite of it all. The academy can no longer use the excuse of not knowing or understanding the experiences of women of color. It now has a responsibility to respond, change, and eliminate these unjust and unfair barriers. Reading this work is an important step for those who consider themselves allies, advocates, and leaders who are committed to inclusive excellence. It is also essential for women of color in the academy to know that they are not alone in their experiences and journeys.”
—Menah Pratt-Clarke, Vice President for Strategic Affairs and Diversity, Professor of Education, Virginia Tech

“As a bastion of elites, whiteness is fiercely protected in academia. Institutions claim to ‘value diversity’ yet consistently remain overwhelmingly white. Contrary to the claim that this is a ‘pipeline’ issue, this powerful collection of essays makes visible the daily mechanics of white supremacy and its intersections with class and gender in academic institutions. We cannot address a problem we cannot see. May these eye-opening essays help loosen the grip of whiteness in academia.”
—Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

"Presumed Incompetent II leaves a legacy for contemporary women as well as those who had to remain silent in their academic isolation. The voices of stoic, unapologetic, and courageous women who put up and pushed back in the culture of patriarchy can embolden many others. This second book again captures the nuances of intersecting identities for women in the academy and highlights the systemic bias that persists. Their lived experiences need to be shared and honored."
—Patricia Arredondo, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education

"This updated edition is filled with new empirical studies and personal accounts from women of color in academia. Each chapter points out the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that gender, race, class, sexuality, and religion are used to quiet women of color, even in the academy, the supposed palace of the mind. Each study and personal story unflinchingly confronts structural oppression and personal bullying that seek to eradicate women of color from the academy. This work is a call to action and should be read by fellow academics, especially those in positions of power."
—CHOICE

"The authors remind women of color of their agency in enacting resistance to the shenanigans of the academy and in developing ways to hold institutions liable for their actions."
—Teachers College Record

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Foreword Presumed Incompetent in the Era of “Diversity” Angela P. Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction Yolanda Flores Niemann, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs and Carmen G. González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Section One TENURE AND PROMOTION
One “Still I Rise” Jacquelyn Bridgeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Two. The Lucky Law Professor and the Eucatastrophic Moment Lolita Buckner Inniss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Three. Tenure with a Termination Letter Penelope Espinoza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Four. Picked to Pieces The Cost of Opportunity Pamela Twyman Hoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Five. Surviving a Difficult Tenure Process Tips for Junior Faculty of Color Cynthia Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Six. They See Us, but They Don’t Really See Us Jessica Lavariega Monforti and Melissa R. Michelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Seven. Promotion while Pregnant and Black Jemimah Li Young and Dorothy E. Hines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Section two ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP
Eight. Senior Chicana Feminist Scholars Some Notes on Survival in Hostile Contexts Donna Castañeda, Yvette G. Flores and Yolanda Flores Niemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Nine. Can I Charge My Therapy to the University? Jodi O’Brien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Ten. Racial Harm in a Predominantly White “Liberal” University An Institutional Autoethnography of White Fragility Lynn Fujiwara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Eleven. Presumptions of Incompetence, Gender Sidelining, and Women Law Deans Laura M. Padilla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Section Three SOCIAL CLASS
Twelve. Unlikely Alliances from Appalachia to East L.A. Insider Without and Outsider Within Desdamona Rios and Kim A. Case Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Thirteen. Academia Is Violence Generatives from a First-Generation, Low-Income PhD Mother of Color Jamiella Brooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Fourteen. Silent Bias and Resisting Narratives of Deficit Social Class and Poverty in the Academy Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Fifteen. They Don’t Call It Work for Nothing Navigating Classism in Academic Relationships Amelia Ortega Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Section Four BULLYING, WHITE FRAGILITY, AND MICROAGGRESSIONS
Sixteen. Making Visible the Dead Bodies in the Room Women of Color/QPOC in Academia Susie E. Nam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Seventeen. The Alpha Female and the Sinister Seven Sahar F. Aziz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Eighteen. Mindful Heresy as Praxis for Change Responding to Microaggressions as Building Blocks of Hegemony Sarah Amira de la Garza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Nineteen. Exposure to Discrimination, Cultural Betrayal, and Intoxication as a Black Female Graduate Student Applying for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions Jennifer M. Gómez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
Twenty. Through a White Woman’s Tears Fragility, Guilt, and the Journey toward Allyship Rachelle A. C. Joplin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Twenty-One. And Still We Rise Adrien K. Wing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Twenty-Two. Closet Chair and Committee Side Piece Black Women STEM Faculty at HBCUs Marcia Allen Owens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Twenty-Three. In Name Only A Principal Investigator’s Struggle for Authority Nellie Tran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Section Five ACTIVISM, RESISTANCE, AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Twenty-Four. Spectacular Bodies Racism, Pregnancy, and the Code of Silence in Academe Julia H. Chang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Twenty-Five. Hashtag Social Media as a Source for Developing Community Meredith D. Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Twenty-Six. My Tenure Denial Grace Park Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
Twenty-Seven. In Lak’ech The Interconnectedness between Faculty and Students of Color Yessenia Manzo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
Twenty-Eight. Securing Support in an Unequal Profession Meera E. Deo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
Twenty-Nine. Healing Is Speaking Stories Evolving Perceptions of Microaggressions, Abuse, and Racial Battle Fatigue—The Good Mind in Action Melissa Michal Slocum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Thirty. The Social Ecology of Tokenism in Higher Education Institutions Yolanda Flores Niemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Thirty-One. Why I Clap Back against Racist Trolls Who Attack Black Women Academics Stacey Patton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
Thirty-Two. Unconquered and Unconquerable A Chickasaw Woman’s Quest for Tenure Rachel Tudor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Afterword Deena J. González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363

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microaggressions; mental health; social class; privileged perspectives; academic leadership; faculty development; degradation; promotion; activism; public engagment

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