This article examines the costs faculty pay to gain status and security in the academy. Academics receive salaries for their work, but also “pay taxes” in order to maintain a positive trajectory toward the ultimate “prize”—promotion and tenure (PT). The psychology of narrative method is used to examine the articulation of the PT process for two Black faculty in educational leadership. Findings offer that the taxes assessed are: credibility tax, leading edge tax, group status tax, and retaliation tax. Narratives culminate in a discussion of the academic labor costs and racial battle fatigue of justice work for Black faculty.

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为晋升和任期缴纳专业税：黑人教职员工的司法工作费用

本文研究了教师为获得学院地位和安全所付出的费用。学术人员会获得其工作的薪水，但也要“缴税”，以保持朝向最终“奖赏”（晋升和任期（PT））的积极轨迹。叙事方法的心理学用于检验教育领导力中两名黑人教师的PT过程的清晰度。调查结果表明，所评估的税种是：信誉税，前沿税，集团地位税和报复税。叙事在讨论黑人教职人员的学术劳动成本和种族斗争疲劳方面达到了高潮。