It’s hard to explain how honored I am that people from across the country trusted me with their stories and ideas. They have been so patient and supportive, and I’m unbelievably proud to have gathered their stories here.
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Foundations
Responding to the Calling: The Spirituality of Mentorship and Community in Academia
Houston Baker, Jr with Ayanna Jackson-Fowler
Building a Canon, Creating Dialogue
Cheryl Wall with Rashida Harrison
Navigations
Difference without Grievance: Asian Americans as the Almost Minority
Leslie Bow
In Search of Our Fathers’ Workshops
Lisa Sánchez González
Identities
Tenure in the Contact Zone: Spanish is Our Language Too
Angie Chambram
‘Colored’ is the New Queer: Queer Faculty of Color in the Academy
Andreana Clay
Manifestos
Performative Testimony and the Practice of Dismissal
Jane Chin Davidson and Deepa S. Reddy
Talking Tenure: “Don’t be safe. Because there is no safety there anyway”
Sarita See
Hierarchies
Still Eating in the Kitchen: The Marginalization of African American Faculty in Majority-White Academic Governance
Carmen V. Harris
Musings of a Lowly Adjunct
Wilson Santos
Activism(s)
Balancing the Passion for Activism with the Demands of Tenure: One Professional’s Story from Three Perspectives
April L. Few-Demo, Fred P. Piercy, and Andrew J. Stremmel
“Cast your net wide”: Reflections on Community Engagement When Black Lives Matter
Patricia A. Matthew
Appendices
Talking Tenure Newsletter
Maria Coter, Paul Faber, Roxana Galusca, Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Rachel Quinn, Kirisitina Sailiata Jamie Small, Andrea Smith, Matthew Stiffler, and Lee Ann Wang
University of Southern California Analysis of Data on Tenure
Jane Junn
Making Labor Visible
Kim F. Hall
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