A Black Woman’s Journey from Academia to the Community: An Interview with Dr. Alisha R. Winn, Applied Anthropologist

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Navigating Higher Education from the Margins 1
4. PART 1 NAVIGATING OUR WAY WITHIN (OR OUT OF) ACADEMIA
5. Navigating the Africana Studies Joint Faculty Position 21
6. From Associate to Full Professor 31
7. Don’t Sell Yourself Short! Starting Your Own Business as an Academic 37
8. The Unbearable Whiteness of Economics: An Interview with Dr. Gary “Hoov” Hoover 41
9. Conditional, but Essential, Contingency 65
10. A Black Woman’s Journey from Academia to the Community: An Interview with Dr. Alisha R. Winn, Applied Anthropologist 79
11. PART 2 DISCIPLINARY AND INSTITUTIONAL BETRAYALS
12. Institutional Betrayals: The Costs Are High 103
13. Conditionally Invisible: Indigenous Invisibilization in US Academia 119
14. The Institutional Othering of Disability: A Graduate Student’s Perspective on Ableism in Higher Education 133
15. Dealing with Sexual Harassment as a Junior Black Woman Scholar 149
16. Denied Tenure: To Be Conditionally Unaccepted 155
17. PART 3 DIVERSITY RHETORIC AND EMPTY PROMISES
18. This Is Your Pipeline Problem: The Far- Reaching Effects of the Mistreatment of Senior Faculty of Color 161
19. Faculty of Color and the Changing University 165
20. From Good Intentions to Inclusive Behaviors: Achieving the Diversity Goals We Profess in Academia 169
21. Dismantling Whiteness in Academia 183
22. PART 4 TRANSFORMING THE ACADEMY AND BEYOND
23. Becoming a Chicano Scholar- Activist: Key Lessons and Takeaways 199
24. Why I Write for the Public 217
25. The Price of Sanctuary at a Hispanic- Serving Institution 223
26. Embracing Scholar- Activism as Legitimate Academic Work 239
27. Acknowledgments 247
28. Contributors 251
29. Index 261