Teaching in the Line of Fire: Faculty of Color in the Academy.

Abstract

Despite these gains for faculty of color,there is another reality,supported byanemergingbodyofliterature,whichsuggeststheseincreasesmaycomeatacost.Forsomefacultyofcolor,anunwelcomingandpotentiallyhostileclassroomenvi-ronment awaits those who choose to teach in predominantly White institutions(PWIs). According to Cathy A. Trower, a research associate at the HarvardGraduate School of Education,faculty of color:• experience overt and/or covert racism including being stereotyped andpigeon-holed;• aremarginalizedandfindthattheirresearchisdiscredited,especiallyifitconcernsminorityissues;• bear a tremendous burden of tokenism,including feelinglike they must be