Abstract

Research on the existential experiences of scholars of color within academic institutions continues to be under-investigated, including within fields that investigate crime and justice. These scholars arrive in the academic workforce shaped by subjective phenomenological experiences rooted in their respective communities but undervalued in academe. Analyzing data from 22 in-depth interviews with Black and Latino/a scholars from across the U.S., I find a disparity between why these scholars entered into fields related to crime and justice and the values of their academic institutions. This disparity creates deontological tensions for scholars of color, perpetuating normative concerns about academic institutions’ understandings of their identities and research. Specifically, scholars describe that their commitment to studying race/ethnicity, crime and justice is often negatively characterized as “me-search,” and they discuss the subject-object paradox of being scholars of color in primarily white academic institutions. This manifests in an academic double consciousness.

摘要

对学术机构内有色人种学者的存在经验的研究仍然不足，包括在调查犯罪和司法的领域内。这些学者加入了由植根于各自社区但在学术界被低估的主观现象学经验塑造的学术队伍。通过对来自美国各地的黑人和拉丁裔学者进行的 22 次深度访谈的数据分析，我发现这些学者进入犯罪和司法相关领域的原因与其学术机构的价值观之间存在差异。这种差异给有色人种学者造成了道义上的紧张，使对学术机构对其身份和研究的理解的规范性关注长期存在。具体来说，学者们描述了他们对研究种族/民族的承诺，犯罪与正义通常被负面地描述为“自我搜索”，他们讨论了在主要是白人学术机构中成为有色人种学者的主客体悖论。这体现在学术上的双重意识。