The Souls of Black Professors
Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed
As colleges and universities issued statements this year affirming that Black lives matter, many Black faculty members remained unimpressed with mere words of support—at once dubious and hopeful that this moment might lead to real, lasting change for themselves and their Black colleagues.
Scholars discuss what it’s like to be a Black professor in 2020, who should be doing antiracist work on campus, and why diversity interventions that attempt to “fix” Black academics for a rigged game miss the point entirely. |