This chapter discusses and unpacks the ways in which gendered racism impacts African American female academics. An understanding of gendered racist realism exposes dominant racist ideologies in the academy, in general. Ontological beingness, specifically the "ontological we," affords African American women the opportunity to confront and dismantle race combative discourses that attempt to circumscribe their beingness and identity. The ideological foundation of the ontological we is derived from DuBois' double consciousness and womanism. It provides both perspective and a plan for addressing racist behavior experienced by African American female academics as part of their everyday reality in the academy.