1382 - Tenure and Emotions: Racism, Sexism, and Intersections of Inequality in Academia

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

As sociologists we know that our lives are shaped, in part, by our surrounding social environments, our institutions, and the societies in which we live, contribute, and even challenge. As Bonilla-Silva has noted, racism is fundamentally about racial domination. In this plenary, we ask the panelists to speak to the multiple ways in which they, and other scholars, have and continue to be affected by myriad inequalities that suffocate our very discipline, indeed, the very fabric of our work space. The panelists take an intersectional lens to what it means to be a female faculty of color in a discipline that continues to be in denial about who ultimately gets rewarded and what this means for the future of sociology and the social sciences. This session is sponsored by the University of Connecticut.

Sub Unit

• Plenary Sessions

Session Organizer

• David G. Embrick, University of Connecticut

Presider

• Daisy Isabel Verduzco Reyes, University of Connecticut

Individual Presentations

• Moving Beyond Rhetoric: Social Justice in Academia - Margaret Abraham, Hofstra University

• Leading as a Chicana Feminist in a Predominantly White Institution - Yolanda Flores Niemann, University of North Texas

• We Can't Fight What We Can't See: Grading Top Sociology Graduate Programs’ Training on Race - Vilna Francine Bashi Treitler, University of California-Santa Barbara