ABSTRACT

This polyethnography is an interdisciplinary collaboration between four multiracial women faculty employed at different universities across the US to examine their experiences navigating monocentricity in higher education. This insightful study amplifies the voices of a particular subset of women of color faculty who identify multiracially – a group overlooked in existing literature examining diverse faculty experiences in higher education. Utilizing Multiracial Critical Race Theory (MultiCrit), we reflex on the similarities and nuances that exist within and between our written stories of experience. Conjointly, our critical reflections reveal the prevalence of monoracism within institutions of higher education, which places both internal and external pressures on multiracial women faculty to demarcate themselves monoracially, while simultaneously maintaining a clandestine borderland identity within their departments. Implications for this study reveal the importance of multiracial counterspaces for multiracial faculty as a form of resistance against monocentricity in US institutions of higher education.

摘要

这项人种志研究是在美国各地不同大学中聘用的四名多种族女教师之间的跨学科合作，以检验她们在高等教育中以单中心为中心的经历。这项有洞察力的研究放大了彩色教职员工中一个特定子集的声音，这些妇女可以进行多种族识别-在现有文献中，该群体忽略了研究高等教育中不同教职经历的现象。利用多种族临界种族理论（MultiCrit），我们反思经验的书面故事内部和之间存在的相似性和细微差别。结合起来，我们的批判性反思揭示了高等教育机构中普遍存在的种族歧视现象，这给多种族女性教师施加了内在和外在的压力，要求他们对自己实行单种族划分，同时在他们的部门内保持秘密的边防身份。这项研究的意义揭示了多种族对等空间对于多种族教师的重要性，这是在美国高等教育机构中抵制单中心性的一种形式。