People of Color in Predominantly White Institutions
Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)
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Date of this Version
October 2001
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Using auto-ethnographic methods, supplementing by current race theories, along with interviews from other scholars, I regard academentia as a form of professionalism most readily communicable to academics of color seeking advance. It can also infect those whose embrace of blackness (widely defined across cultures) is the least tolerant of the racial designs of white cultural practices. Where in the interest of students and colleagues, such academics challenge the whiteness criteria defining academic success, most of their peers adhere to the racial standards of professionalism.