Browsing by Subject "Critical race theory"

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    Academic freedom for whom? experiences and perceptions of faculty of color
    (2013-03) Locher, Holley M.
    Academic freedom is a cornerstone principle to the U. S. system of higher education and is intended to exist for all faculty. Thus, the dominant discourse is that academic freedom is neutral. Utilizing the framework of critical race theory, this research demonstrates that faculty of color can differentially experience and perceive their academic freedom in ways that are influenced by their social identities. Thirteen faculty of color from three Research 1 institutions in geographically distinct states were interviewed for this study. Their CVs and publications were also analyzed. Results highlight several findings: academic freedom played an important role in participants' teaching, service, and research; participants' social identities could influence the extent to which they felt they could enact their academic freedom; some participants did not feel fully protected by academic freedom; and discrimination/oppression could fatigue participants to the point where they no longer had the willpower and/or the energy to enact their academic freedom. Nonetheless, all but one participant in this study enacted their academic freedom as a form of agency on behalf of diversity and social justice.
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    Missing bridges: the invisible (and hypervisible) lesbian of color in theory, publishing, and media
    (2013-05) DeLong, Renee Ann
    While moving from theory, through the Women in Print Movement, and up to the current images of lesbians this dissertation considers how the figure of the lesbian of color has been erased and highlighted at different times and in different spaces. Chapter one, "What Does Invisibility Look Like?" examines how and where the figure of the lesbian of color is overlooked, squeezed out, or tokenized. In chapter 2: "Rhetorically irreverent, politically radical, and deeply personal: Lesbians of Color Organize," the work of the Azalea Collective in Brooklyn, NY, the Combahee River Collective in Boston, MA, Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua's planning for This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, and the work of Kitchen Table Press are explored. Chapter three, "Publishing and Perishing: The Women in Print Movement from 1980-2002," compares the climate in 1981 when This Bridge Called my Back: Radical Women of Color Speak Out was published to the climate for Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray: Feminist Visions for a Just World in 2002. Chapter four, "What's visible now? The Creation of [White] Lesbian Celebrities" examines the classed and racialized messages embedded in the media figures of Rachel Maddow, Suze Orman, and Ellen DeGeneres.