Teaching Up: Faculty of Color Teaching About Privilege

Atkins, Celeste

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“…The proceeding discussion outlines our understanding of how Black women faculty experience “teaching up” (Atkins 2020). Using an intersectional analysis, we explore how Black women faculty navigate academia in which controlling images are used as a mechanism to “other” them.…”

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“…This is especially true for those who teach at PWIs (Predominantly White Institutions), but even faculty at minority-serving institutions still teach students who have been socialized to believe (for the most part) in the neoliberal idea of a colorblind American Dream (Perez and Salter 2019). Second, as women of color in hegemonically white academia, Black women faculty face an additional burden of teaching up (Atkins 2020). Atkins (2020) introduced the idea of "teaching up" to illustrate the additional challenges faced by faculty from marginalized backgrounds when teaching about privilege.…”

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“…Second, as women of color in hegemonically white academia, Black women faculty face an additional burden of teaching up (Atkins 2020). Atkins (2020) introduced the idea of "teaching up" to illustrate the additional challenges faced by faculty from marginalized backgrounds when teaching about privilege. This was an expansion of the idea of "studying up" (Messner 1996;Nader 1972), which focuses research on those who benefit from positions of privilege rather than solely studying those oppressed.…”

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Teaching Up: The Intersection of Impression Management and Controlling Images for Black, Cisgender, Women Faculty

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Kalel

2023

Symbolic Interaction

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This is a qualitative study of Black cisgender women's faculty experiences using an interactionist framework. Relying on in‐depth interviews, we explore the experiences of eight Black, cisgender, women, sociology faculty across the United States in various tenure and non‐tenure roles at different institutions (community college, teaching college, and research universities). Participants engaged in a variety of impression management techniques to overcome implicit biases and controlling images that shaped their students', and their colleagues', perceptions. While women in our study had agency, they were limited in the ways they could present themselves, a phenomenon Deil‐Amen and Tevis describe as circumscribed agency. Once women in our study had achieved seniority they were able to express themselves in culturally authentic ways. Theoretically, this study shows how interpretive sociology can overcome its theoretical limitations in dealing with race, and shows that the interactionist perspective is actually well suited towards discussing this matters in a meaningful way. We conclude by advocating for greater awareness surrounding the lived experience of Black, women faculty, especially by those who mentor and evaluate them.

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Teaching Up: The Intersection of Impression Management and Controlling Images for Black, Cisgender, Women Faculty

Atkins,

Kalel

2023

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Contextual and Experiential Understandings of Privilege as Intersectional

2022

Journal of Management Education

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With ongoing racial tensions, terms such as antiracism and diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) are buzzwords on campuses across the United States. Yet resources, especially in management education, to teach privilege and intersectionality are limited. This article introduces four reflection exercises I have found valuable in facilitating students’ different understandings (contextual and experiential) of privilege as intersectional. In addition, I present a conceptual framework for thinking about the intersection of multiple identities simultaneously given contextual and experiential understandings of privilege. In this way, this article makes both pedagogical and theoretical contributions. The sharing of these exercises, personal reflections, and teaching suggestions are geared at stimulating dialogue for how we learn and teach privilege, intersectionality, diversity, and antiracism. Instructors, regardless of their backgrounds, are invited to reflect on their intersectionality and privilege and also to consider integrating these exercises into their own DEI teaching.

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Teaching Up: Faculty of Color Teaching About Privilege

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Teaching Up: The Intersection of Impression Management and Controlling Images for Black, Cisgender, Women Faculty

Teaching Up: The Intersection of Impression Management and Controlling Images for Black, Cisgender, Women Faculty

Contextual and Experiential Understandings of Privilege as Intersectional

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