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Publication Date: 2018
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Rewriting Dominant Narratives of the Academy: Women Faculty of Color and Identity Management
Motha, Suhanthie; Varghese, Manka M.
Race, Ethnicity and Education, v21 n4 p503-517 2018
Drawing on Delgado and Yosso's "counterstory," Yosso's "community cultural wealth," and Alsup's "borderland discourses," the authors, who are women of color academics, use narratives from their lives to discuss the ways in which they draw on resources in managing and reconfiguring their multiple identities within the academy. These include identities of scholars, mentors, teachers, community members, mothers, and partners. They suggest that rather than merely being socialized into cultural reproduction, as much of the literature oriented toward women of color advises them to do in order to become successful, they seek to actually engage in transforming their roles and that of the academy by consciously and repeatedly making present and visible facets of identity that have previously been more-or-less absent in higher education. By presenting these counter-narratives the authors attempt to engage with ways of self-positioning that are, especially for women of color in academia, not frequently discussed or presented.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Females, Professional Identity, Self Concept, Racial Identification, Ethnicity, Personal Narratives, Minority Group Teachers, Acculturation, Social Integration, Cultural Capital, Critical Theory, Race, Discourse Analysis, Teaching Experience, Feminism, Women Faculty
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