Confronting Institutionalized Racism in Higher Education: Counternarratives for Racial Justice

This book chronicles the experiences of faculty at predominantly white higher education institutions (PWI) by centering voices of racialized faculty across North America. Drawing on Critical Race Theory and critical, feminist, and auto-ethnographic approaches, the text analyzes those narratives, situating people’s words in a landscape of institutionalized racism within higher education. In order to support newer under-represented faculty, administrators committed to supporting faculty, and doctoral students interested in a future in higher education, the book offers strategies and implications for institutional reform and anti-racist faculty organizing/survival in academia. Despite claims by university administrations about commitments to diversity, this book demonstrates otherwise, offering counter-narratives from racialized faculty members who share their struggles.

Dianne Ramdeholl is Associate Professor of Adult Education at SUNY Empire State College. Committed to adult education for democratic social change and justice-centered practice/research, Dianne's work has focused on developing educational projects with marginalized populations. She is co-convenor of the Racialized Faculty Caucus at SUNY/Empire State College.

Jaye Jones is a higher education administrator at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her training as a social worker and adult literacy educator deeply informs her work as a leader committed to centering the voices and knowledges of marginalized communities of color.