Rounding Up the Usual Suspects: Academia's Version of Driving While Black (DWB)

Authors

Cecil E. Canton, California State University, Sacramento

Date of this Version

October 1999

Abstract

“In much the same way that law enforcement agents identify Blacks for these routine, but illegal, traffic stops, agents of predominantly white institutions identify the few faculty of color, and ‘round up these usual suspects’ to ensure that their committees will have the appropriate racial, gender or ethnic representation.”