Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure

333 Pages·2016·10.65 MB·English

by  Patricia A. Matthew (editor)

Written/Unwritten
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Written/Unwritten
Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure
Edited by
Patricia A. Matthew
The University of North Carolina Press C hapel Hill
© 2016 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of Amer i ca
Set in Espinosa Nova and Alegreya Sans by Westchester Publishing Ser vices
The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press
Initiative since 2003.
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Matthew, Patricia A., editor.
Title: Written/unwritten : diversity and the hidden truths of tenure / edited
by Patricia A. Matthew.
Description: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016008742 | ISBN 9781469630168 (cloth : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781469627717 (pbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469627724 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Discrimination in higher education— United States. | College
teachers—T enure—U nited States. | Diversity in the workplace— United
States.
Classification: LCC LC212.42 W75 2016 | DDC 378.1/214— dc23
LC rec ord available at http:// lccn . loc . gov / 2016008742
This book is dedicated to Georgine Leonie
and William Owen Matthew
“train up a child . . .”
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Contents
Preface x i
It’s not just us. This is happening everywhere:
On CVs and the Michigan Women
Introduction 1
Written/Unwritten:
The Gap Between Theory and Practice
Patricia A. Matthew
Foundations
Responding to the Call(ing): 29
The Spirituality of Mentorship and Community in Academia:
An Interview with Houston A. Baker Jr.
Ayanna Jackson- Fowler
Building a Canon, Creating Dialogue 46
An Interview with Cheryl A. Wall
Rashida L. Harrison
Navigations
Difference without Grievance 67
Asian Americans as the Almost Minority
Leslie Bow
In Search of Our F athers’ Workshops 80
Lisa Sánchez González
Identities
Tenure in the Contact Zone 95
Spanish Is Our Language, Too
Angie Chabram
“ Colored” Is the New Queer 109
Queer Faculty of Color in the Acad emy
Andreana Clay
Manifestos
Performative Testimony and the Practice of Dismissal 127
Jane Chin Davidson and Deepa S. Reddy
Talking Tenure 148
Don’t be safe. Because there is no safety there anyway
Sarita Echavez See
Hierarchies
Still Eating in the Kitchen 165
The Marginalization of African American Faculty in
Majority White Academic Governance
Carmen V. Harris
Contingent Diversity, Contingent Faculty 178
Or, Musings of a Lowly Adjunct
Wilson Santos
Activism(s)
Balancing the Passion for Activism with the Demands of Tenure 201
One Professional’s Story from Three Perspectives
April L. Few-D emo, Fred P. Piercy, and Andrew J. Stremmel
Cast Your Net Wide 222
Reflections on Activism and Community Engagement
When Black Lives Matter:
Conversations with Ariana E. Alexander, E. Frances White, and
Jennifer D. Williams
Patricia A. Matthew

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Conclusion 241
Tweeting Diversity: Race and Tenure in the Age of Social Media
Patricia A. Matthew
Appendix A—C ampus Lockdown and the “Talking Tenure”
Newsletter 261
Maria Coter, Paul Faber, Roxana Galusca, Anneeth Kaur Hundle,
Rachel Quinn, Kirisitina Sailiata, Jamie Small, Andrea Smith, Matthew
Stiffler, and Lee Ann Wang
Appendix B— University of Southern California Analy sis
of Data on Tenure 269
Jane Junn
Appendix C— Making Labor Vis i ble 277
Kim F. Hall
Bibliography 2 81
Acknowl edgments 2 95
Biographies of Contributors 297
Index 305

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