Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty Perspectives and Lessons from Higher Education Diverse Faculty in the Academy Series

Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty examines the challenges faced by diverse faculty members in colleges and universities. Highlighting the experiences of faculty of color?including African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Indigenous populations?in higher education across a range of institutional types, chapter authors employ an autoethnographic approach to the telling of their stories. Chapters illustrate on-the-ground experiences, elucidating the struggles and triumphs of faculty of color as they navigate the historically White setting of higher education, and provide actionable strategies to help faculty and administrators combat these issues. This book gives voice to faculty struggles and arms graduate students, faculty, and administrators committed to diversity in higher education with the specific tools needed to reduce Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) and make lasting and impactful change.

Series Editor Introduction

Foreword by William A. Smith

Preface

Chapter 1:The Battle of Racial Battle Fatigue

Nicholas D. Hartlep and Daisy Ball

Part I: The Racialized Experiences of African Americans in U.S. Higher Education

Chapter 2: Double Consciousness and Racial Battle Fatigue at a Community College: A Peculiar Sensation

Robin R. Ford

Chapter 3: Teaching While Black: My Experience as a Faculty Member at a Predominantly White Institution

Robert T. Palmer

Chapter 4: I Feel No Ways Tired: The Exhaustion from Battling the Pathology of Whiteness

Cleveland Hayes

Part II: The Racialized Experiences of Asian Americans in U.S. Higher Education

Chapter 5: Navigating Weird Comments, Stereotypes and Microaggressions as Southeast Asian American Faculty at a Predominantly White Community College

Andrew Cho and Sopang "Pang" Men

Chapter 6: When You Name a Problem, You Become the Problem: (En)Countering Whiteness at a Small, Liberal Arts College as a South Asian American Tenured Professor

Anita Chikkatur

Chapter 7: Ignored, Pacified, and Deflected: Racial Battle Fatigue for an Asian American non-Tenure Track Professor

Takumi C. Sato

Part III: The Racialized Experiences of Latinx in U.S. Higher Education

Chapter 8: Intersectional Competence Within a Diverse Latinx Community: Conceptualizing Differences at a Hispanic Serving Institution

Mildred Boveda

Chapter 9: "Counterspaces" and Mentorship as Resources for Immigrant Faculty of Color Facing Racial Battle Fatigue

Nadia I. Martínez-Carrillo

Chapter 10: At the Intersection of Gender and Race: Stories from the Academic Career of a Recovering Sociologist

Pamela Anne Quiroz

Part IV: The Politicized Experiences of Native Americans in U.S. Higher Education

Chapter 11: Tribal College American Indian Faculty Perspectives On Sub-Oppression, Racial Microaggression

Shandin H. Pete and Salisha A. Old Bull

Chapter 12: Research and Resistance: Reasons for Indigenous Research Methodologies

Dawn Quigley

Chapter 13: Recommendations to Support Indigenous faculty

Jameson D. Lopez

Part V: The Racialized Experiences of People of Color in Diversity-Related Faculty Fellow Positions and Non-Tenure-Track Positions in U.S. Higher Education

Chapter 14: The Convenient, Invisible, Token-Diversity Hire: A Black Woman’s Experience in Academia

Paula R. Buchanan

Chapter 15: Experiencing Ellison’s "Battle Royal" in Higher Education

Martel A. Pipkins

Chapter 16: Ivory Tower Respectability and el Estado de Estar Harta

Sayil Camacho

Afterword: Paying Professional Taxes: Academic Labor Cost for Faculty of Color and Indigenous Faculty

Noelle W. Arnold

Nicholas D. Hartlep is the Robert Charles Billings Endowed Chair in Education and is the Chair of the Education Studies Department at Berea College, Kentucky, USA.

Daisy Ball is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program in the Department of Public Affairs at Roanoke College, Virginia, USA.