GET OUT: The Disembodiment of Black Faculty and Staff (Practitioner/Scholar) Identity in Predominantly White Institutions

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Abstract

This Interactive Symposium session utilizes Jordan Peele’s 90th Academy Award winning film Get Out (McKittrick, Blum, Hamm, & Peele, 2017) as a theoretical framework to problematize and deconstruct the experiences of Black Scholars and Staff (Practitioner/Scholars) who negotiate predominantly White spaces on their academic and professional journeys in Academe.

Authors

• Fred Arthur Bonner, Prairie Vew A&M University

• Crystal J. Allen, Lone Star College

• Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Stella L. Smith, Prairie View A&M University

• Leonard Donovan Taylor, Mississippi State University

• Anthony Heaven, The University of Texas at Austin