Research Catalog

Title

The black professoriat : negotiating a habitable space in the academy / edited by Sandra Jackson & Richard Greggory Johnson III.

Publication

New York : P. Lang, ©2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jackson, Sandra, 1946-
• Johnson, Richard Greggory.

Description

vi, 254 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• Although Black faculty have been present in the academy since the late nineteenth century, it has been during the twentieth century that they have established a presence which has had political, cultural, and epistemological implications. This book focuses on contemporary, successful Black scholars in the academy: they have become tenured and promoted; been recognized as noteworthy scholars, researchers, and as excellent teachers; and have served in leadership capacities. Through autoethnographic narratives that illustrate and interrogate experiences about being in the academy as gendered, race, classed, and sexually oriented others, this book captures the diverse voices of Black men and women achievers who have not only survived, but also thrived. Their candor will inspire others to negotiate normative milieu and make manifest their legitimacy and right to belong.
• Sandra Jackson is Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Director of the Center for African and Black Diaspora at DePaul University. Her areas of interest include feminist theorizing, women's autobiography, girls' studies, young adult literature and representations of gender, science fiction, utopian and dystopian literature and film, and gender and higher education. Dr. Jackson is widely published.
• Richard Greggory Johnson III, Phi Beta Kappa, is Associate Professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Program and faculty in the Masters of Public Administration Program at the University of Vermont. He is widely published and serves as an executive editor for Peter Lang's Black Studies and Critical Thinking series. Dr. Johnson is a life member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

Black studies & critical thinking ; v. 6

Uniform Title

Black studies & critical thinking ; v. 6.

Subjects

• Faculty integration > United States
• African American college teachers > Social conditions
• African American college teachers > Job satisfaction

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Sandra Jackson & Richard Greggory Johnson III -- Bordered and bleeding identities: an autocritography of shifting academic life / Bryant Keith Alexander -- An ethic of responsibility: a black lesbian scholar ponders the intersection of racism and heterosexism in educational leadership / Judy A. Alston -- Developing my higher self: my life as an African American woman in the academy / Christopher Anne Easley -- Black women in the professoriat: enlightened, emancipated and empowered / Denise E. Strong, Tammie M. Causey-Konaté & Brenda Burrell -- No apologies for being myself / Lemeul Watson -- Sometimes I've felt like a motherless child: being black and female in the academy / Linda Tillman -- Toppling the "great white north": tales of a black female professor in the Canadian academy / Charmine A. Nelson -- Jumping the broom: the incompatible marriage of higher education leadership and faculty life / Richard Greggory Johnson III -- Taking nothing for granted: ruminations of a black woman professor / Sandra Jackson -- From graduate student to full professor: navigating the waters of two research one institutions / Frank C. Worrell -- Navigating through the complex web if identity politics: confronting race in academia. / Moustapha Diouf -- "Exorcizing critical pedagogy" again: reflections on being an angry black man in the academy / Marvin Lynn -- Notes of a black male academic border crosser: globalization and the black male body / Antonio D. Tillis -- "The personal is always political": reflections on creating habitable space in academia / Marsha J. Tyson Darling.

Call Number

Sc E 15-1083

ISBN

• 9781433110276 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 143311027X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781433110283 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1433110288 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010046077

OCLC

681503968

Title

The black professoriat : negotiating a habitable space in the academy / edited by Sandra Jackson & Richard Greggory Johnson III.

Imprint

New York : P. Lang, ©2011.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Black studies & critical thinking ; v. 6

Black studies & critical thinking ; v. 6.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Jackson, Sandra, 1946-

Johnson, Richard Greggory.

Research Call Number

Sc E 15-1083