Narratives of Resistance and Resilience: The Experiences of Women-of-Color Scholars in Predominantly White Colleges/Schools of Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session brings together six women of color scholars in education. This group has varied experience as faculty administrators (deans and department chairs) and faculty members including those who are on the tenure-track or who have attained tenured. Each of us reflects on the challenges and realities of “finding our place” in the academy by theorizing our experiences from a variety of approaches and interpretive frameworks. We will engage the audience in discussion about the need for reconceptualizing success that challenges White-feminist frameworks that too often ignore the complexities of our racialized experiences while also considering how additional factors such as class, ethnicity/nationality, and language differently shape our identities and outlooks in relation to our work (Madden, 2005; Schwartz, 1997).

Sub Unit

• Committee on Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity in Education

Chair

• Rachel Endo, University of Washington Tacoma

Papers

• (In)Visible Labor: Reflections From a Latina Faculty - Norma A Marrun, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• "Being Sifted Like Black Flour": Finding Safe Spaces on a Predominately White Campus - Rebecca Neal, Hamline University

• "You Need to Be More Social": Addressing Controlling Images of Black Women in the Tenure Dossier - Stephanie Burrell Storms, Fairfield University

• The Disproportionate Underrepresentation of Faculty of Color in Higher Education: Perspectives From disAbility Studies in Education - Hyun Uk Kim, Eastern Oregon University

• Women of Color Faculty as Un/Desirable Bodies of Difference in Colleges/Schools of Education: Perspectives From an Asian American Dean - Rachel Endo, University of Washington Tacoma

Discussant

• Sheila Wright, Cambridge College