First-Generation Faculty of Color: Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service
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First-Generation Faculty of Color - Tracy Lachica Buenavista
PREFACE
To be Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in the academy is an exercise in grace, strength, and innovation. On an everyday basis, we embody unbelonging while simultaneously being conditioned to seek a sense of belonging in a place that was never meant for us. Our existence as BIPOC faculty is lauded in theory but met with perpetual disdain in practice by the institutions we have infiltrated and exacerbated by the first-generation student identities that shape the survival strategies that have enabled us to persist. This book is a collective testimonio of what it means to be first-generation faculty of color, a distinct and complex position experienced by many but rarely ever documented.
Our decision to write this book is an effort to document first-generation faculty of color stories. As critical race theorists, we believe in the power of storytelling to illustrate that faculty of color are not a monolith and how we can experience shared spaces—in this case, the academy—very differently. Writing our stories is an attempt to validate the experiential knowledge and intuition of first-generation faculty of color in the academic diaspora and who are likely away from the families and communities that feed and nurture us. Stories reveal that our isolation within programs and departments, colleges and universities, and academic fields are shared, systemic, and symptomatic of the unforgiving white supremacy that is American higher education. Stories are also what facilitate connection among us when we need