Seeds, Spirits, and Sacrifice: Emotion Management as Misogynoir in Equity-Oriented Professional Development

• In Event: The Promises, Tensions, and Struggles of Witnessing Toward Racial Justice

Abstract

This paper sheds light on the often-overlooked emotional labor and surveillance experienced by Black women faculty (BWF) in equity-oriented professional development programs (EOPDs). By foregrounding the possibilities and harms that come from Black women being witnessed in interracial EOPDs, I offer evidence of how equity-oriented initiatives function as spaces that constrain expansive learning and reproduce existing social arrangements that prioritize whiteness at the expense of Black women.

Author

• Aireale J. Rodgers, University of Wisconsin - Madison