Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance

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This book documents the lived experiences of women of color academics who have leveraged their professional positions to challenge the status quo in their scholarship, teaching, service, activism, and leadership. By presenting reflexive work from various vantage points within and outside of the academy, contributors document the cultivation of mentoring relationships, the use of administrative roles to challenge institutional leadership, and more. Through an emphasis on the various ways in which women of color have succeeded in the academy―albeit with setbacks along the way―this volume aims to change the discourse surrounding women of color academics: from a focus on trauma and mere survival to a focus on courage and thriving. Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Part I Resisting Convention: Counternarratives to Conventional Norms and Practices in the Academy 2 Leading as a Chicana Feminist in a Predominantly White Institution 3 What Looks Like Bravery in the Academy: Reflections of an African-American Woman Engineer 4 Being Brave in the Ivory Towers as “Zape-tah-hol-ah” (Sticks with Bow) 5 “Working the Cracks” in Academia and Beyond: Cultivating “Race” and Social Justice Convergence Spaces, Networks, and Liberation Capital for Social Transformation in the Neoliberal University 6 Resisting Sexual Harassment in Academia 7 Un-Disciplined: A Conversation Between Two Sisters Who Left Graduate School 8 “You’re Doing What?!?”: Leaving Academia to Answer the Call Part II Collective Resistance: Counternarratives to the Ethos of Individualistic Meritocracy in the Academy 9 Love Note 10 La Colectiva: Peer Mentoring on the Path to Thrival 11 Fiery Mind, Full Heart, Brave Soul: A Model for Women of Color to Thrive in Historically White Colleges and Universities 12 Courageous Xicanas: Living Legacies of Comadrazgo in the Academy 13 “We Got You”: What Raising Up the Next Generation of Scholar-Activists Has Taught Me 14 On the Wings of Communal Bravery Part III Embodied Resistance: Counternarratives to Hegemonic Identities in the Academy 15 A Letter for Auntie Lorde 16 On Being Powerfully Vulnerable and Why I Love My Black Woman’s Tears 17 Vulnerability: The New Brave 18 Undocumented in the Ivory Tower 19 A Latinx Testimonio of Motherhood in Academia 20 On Desiderata Afterword List of Contributors Index