"First-Generation Faculty of Color: Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service is the first book to examine the experiences of racially minoritized faculty who were also the first in their families to graduate college in the United States. From contingent to tenured faculty who teach at community college, comprehensive, and research institutions, the book is a collection of critical narratives that collectively show the diversity of faculty of color, attentive to and beyond race. The book is organized into three major parts comprised of chapters in which faculty of color depict how first-generation college student identities continue to inform how minoritized people navigate academe well into their professional careers, and encourage them to reconceptualize research, teaching, and service responsibilities to better consider the families and communities that shaped their lives well before college"--
This volume collects 13 personal narratives of faculty of color who were the first in their families to graduate from a US college and went on to pursue faculty careers, illustrating how education generational status impacts how faculty of color experience academia. They use critical race autoethnography and testimonios to contextualize larger issues of erasure, contrast, and inequity in academia in areas like negotiating job offers, balancing advising and teaching responsibilities, dealing with multiple realities, and crafting a scholar identity while attempting to retain their authentic selves. They address experiences with research, teaching, and service, including the job search process, mental health, pedagogy, diversifying the curriculum, attempts to make classrooms more inclusive, service responsibilities, and commitment to family and community. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Through a comprehensive collection of personal narratives, First-Generation Faculty of Color: Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service is the first book to examine faculty diversity through the experiences of racially minoritized faculty who were also the first in their families to graduate college in the United States.
First-Generation Faculty of Color: Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service is the first book to examine the experiences of racially minoritized faculty who were also the first in their families to graduate college in the United States. From contingent to tenured faculty who teach at community colleges, comprehensive, and research institutions, the book is a collection of critical narratives that collectively show the diversity of faculty of color, attentive to and beyond race. The book is organized into three major parts comprised of chapters in which faculty of color depict how first-generation college student identities continue to inform how minoritized people navigate academe well into their professional careers, and encourage them to reconceptualize research, teaching, and service responsibilities to better consider the families and communities that shaped their lives well before college.