The Beauty and the Burden of Being a Black Professor

Cheron H. Davis, Adriel Hilton, Ricardo Hamrick, F. Erik Brooks, Cheron H. Davis, Adriel Hilton, Ricardo Hamrick, F. Erik Brooks, Cheron H. Davis, Adriel A. Hilton, Ricardo Hamrick, F. Erik Brooks

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781838672690
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

It has been well chronicled that Black professors have experienced a long history of inequities and inequalities within the academic space. This volume explores the experiences, challenges and triumphs experienced by Black professors.
Including personal essays written by Black professors, this volume showcases personal insights and inspirational stories from leading Black scholars across the US. It highlights and problematizes the uncomfortable truth of the lack of diversity in many higher education institutions in order to further discussions on the topic of race in academia, and to assist academics of color in preparing for their careers. Future academics will gain a sense of how to launch their careers, stay productive in research, teaching and service, and avoid the racial-related malaise that can hinder new academics of color.
By presenting discussions on professional development, and emphasizing the challenges and triumphs experienced by Black professors across disciplines, this book provides advice for junior Black scholars on how to navigate academe and tackle the challenges that Black scholars often face.

Index

Academic

administrators as cultural managers, 118

tracking, 38

Academic Affairs Leadership Team (AALT), 135–136

ACPA About Campus, 141

Adjunct counternarrative, 120–122

Adjunct faculty, 115

as professionals, 119

Adjunct Faculty Professional Identity: An African-American Postsecondary Administrators Part-time Teaching Narrative (Campbell), 5

Adoption through compliance, 169–170

ADVANCE Women of Color Summer Writing Retreats, 141

Advising, 142–143

Affirmative identity thesis, 29

African Americans, 9–10

dual identity, 114–124

faculty experience, 10–12

higher education professionals, 14

history course, 107–108

identity, 119

normative professional socialization, 113–114

postsecondary administrator’s part-time teaching narrative, 111–112

scholars, 112

women, 90, 91

American Association for Blacks in Higher Education’s Leadership and Mentoring Institute (AABHE’s LMI), 137

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 171–172

American Council on Education (ACE), 9

Ample scholarship, 10

Apprentice-style, 172–173

Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), 24

Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), 134–135

Atlantic, The , 106

Beauty and Burden of Being a Black Professor, The , 183–185, 187

Beauty and the Beast , 1

duality of tale, 1–2

lyrics of song, 2–3

Behavioral change, 170

Black academic leaders, 114

Black adjunct faculty, 119

Black faculty, 187–188

members, 24

Black Issues in Higher Education , 68

Black Lives Matter movement, 183, 185

Black women, 80–81

negative stereotypic images, 81

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Editor
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• Foreword
• Black Professorship: The Beauty and the Beast
• Hazard Ahead: The Impact of High Executive Turnover Rates on African Americans' Navigation of the Professoriate at HBCUs
• The Spook Who Sat by the Ivory Tower: A Critical Race Theory Narrative of a Black Man's Tenure-track Journey within the Academy
• PhD to Professor: An Open Letter to a Young Scholar
• May the Work I've Done Speak for Me: Tenure, Promotion
• My Time in the Academy: A Cautionary Tale
• Unstoppable: A Black Woman's Journey through the Professorate
• A Dialog between Sisters
• Two Worlds: A Black Woman Scholar at a Diverse Historically Black College
• Adjunct Faculty Professional Identity: An African-American Postsecondary Administrator's Part-time Teaching Narrative
• Mentorship Made the Difference: My Journey to an Unexpected Destination
• “I Am because We Are…” Not Just Mentoring but a Collaborative Approach to Faculty and Student Development
• Using a Cross-disciplinary Teaching Approach to Attenuate the Void: Building Educators and Researchers at a Historically Black College/University
• The Last of 2020
• Epilogue
• Index