The Institutional Cost of Being a Faculty of Color: A Critical Personal Reflection

• Main Author: Pierre Wilbert Orelus
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Arizona State University 2013-08-01
• Series: Current Issues in Education
• Subjects: professors of color; micro-aggression; racial [in]visibility; racial profiling; resistant narratives; education
• Online Access: https://cie.asu.edu/ojs/index.php/cieatasu/article/view/1001

Drawing on critical race theory, auto-ethnography, and resistant narratives, this article examines systemic forms of oppression that professors of color teaching at predominantly white institutions have been facing. The author incorporates in his analysis his experience as a faculty of color battling multiple forms of micro-aggression (Solórzano, 1998). He situates his professional and lived experiences with institutional racism in a larger educational and political context and goes on to analyze the ways and the degree to which this form of racism has affected other professors of color.