The Invisible Toll
Race, Power, and the Institutional Cost of Belonging in Higher Education
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:18th Feb '27
£90.00
This title is due to be published on 18th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Highlights the ways in which micro-aggressions and other forms of institutional oppression affect subaltern professors, students, and administrators in the academy.
The American academy has historically been a white male dominated institution. This book reveals how micro-aggressions and other forms of institutional oppression affect subaltern professors, students, and administrators in the academy, despite substantial diversity rhetoric.
Orelus analyses ethnographic research carried out over a six year period including testimonios which document personal narratives of subaltern identities in academia. Orelus explores micro-aggressions across the structures of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, immigration status and also carries out a socio-linguistic analysis of the testimonios, looking at discrimination due to language, dialects and accents. While some of the participants are US born, others are from Colombia, Germany, Ghana, India, Jamaica, Jordan, Mexico, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Spain. Drawing on ideas from critical race theory and decolonial theory, Orelus unpacks various forms of inequities and micro-aggressions, including racial profiling, denial of promotion and tenure, and invisibility, that subaltern professors, students, and administrators have faced in American higher education. The book includes a foreword by Kevin Kumashiro and an afterword by Wayne Au.
In this important new volume, scholars from a variety of backgrounds describe and analyze their experiences in higher education and the way in which structural barriers, institutional racism and interpersonal bias limit their ability to fully contribute to the academic enterprise. Their stories remind us that despite some advances, tremendous obstacles to fairness and racial equity remain and must be contested if we are to truly decolonize higher education. -- Pedro Noguera, Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the Rossier School of Education and a Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Southern California, USA
The Invisible Tollprovides an important space where the voices of minoritized faculty in higher education are made powerfully present. It presents us with a very honest account of the continuing struggles to challenge the realities they so often face. -- Michael W. Apple, Professor Emeritus University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
The Invisible Toll is a solid testimony of what academics of color experience in the ivory (not ivory and ebony) towers. Despite presenting themselves as bastions of diversity, inclusiveness, and intellectualism, higher education institutions inadvertently (or advertently) recycle the very racism and sexism they claim to abhor. Thusly, choosing to overlook or ignore these testimonies ultimately maintains the racist and sexist status quo of academia. Notwithstanding this Dr. Pierre Orelus so poignantly reveals the hate inside academia, especially to a committed faculty who ceaselessly generate and express love to their students, research, and society... -- Cheryl E. Matias, Full Professor (Motherscholar), University of San Diego, USA
ISBN: 9781350168992
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
192 pages