The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences, biases, micro-aggressions and macro-aggressions towards women of color in higher education faculty positions. There are many critical issues regarding the lack of diversification in the workforce, are unequal representation, a lack of cultural-social understanding, embedded institutional racism and insufficient collaboration and relationship building. I explored literature, as well as conduct autoethnographic research to determine the divergences and parallels between women of color experiences as faculty and identify their marginalization and underrepresentation in higher education. I also draw on critical race theory (CRT), Co-operative inquiry (CI), Intersectionality theory (IT), literature and other studies seeking transformational resistance. I highlight how daily and frequent micro and macroaggressions wear on people of color (POC) in the classrooms, the academy and from colleagues. Veenstra (2011), defines Intersectionality theory as a way of understanding social inequalities by race, gender, class, and sexuality that emphasizes their mutually constitutive natures, possesses potential to uncover and explicate previously unknown health inequalities.”The results illuminate the hypothesis that women of color are at a disadvantage in faculty positions and that they face many obstacles and discriminatory treatment as faculty members and they are underrepresented.

Authors:
Dolapo Adeniji-Neill, Adelphi University, United States

About the Presenter(s)
Professor Dolapo Adeniji-Neill is a University Professor/Principle Lecturer at Adelphi University, United States

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