CCEJ Research Assistant Carolyn Tinglin has published a chapter within the book Feminists Talk Whiteness. The chapter is titled Academic Survival: Troubling the tensions between race, gender, and class in a predominantly white academic institution.
Abstract:
Carolyn Tinglin recounts her experiences as a Black woman faculty member at a predominantly white university, where everyday interactions amplify tensions between her intersectional self and the white-centric institutional forces meant to maintain the status quo. Tinglin traces her coming to terms with the ways that microaggressions undermined her self-knowledge and her resolve, discovering how to resist through self-care and advocacy. She describes and analyzes what it is like to try to resist the stereotypes, tropes, and performance expectations projected on her, then pinpoints academic structures of racism that Black women faculty experience, together with historical and social aspects of identity dualisms. She concludes with an exploration of ways Black women faculty’s voices can be amplified, white academic spaces confronted, and transformative resistance broadly adopted.
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