This text, like many, accepts that the academy (and more specifically the PWI) is rife with an enduring phenomenon found to continuously bedevil Black faculty. However, unlike other investigations this text uniquely identifies and articulates that that which plagues Black faculty can be described as religious in nature and can be read through…

This singular holistic case study examined the experience of a Black pregnant mother pursuing doctoral studies in a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) field at a predominantly white flagship institution in the southern United States. We employed the tenets of critical race feminism in this study to demonstrate the ways in which…

This article focuses on the college experiences of 19 Black men who attended historically white institutions (HWIs). Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, we explore how these students articulate, make sense of, and are confronted by antiblackness during their college years. We find and detail three specific forms of anti-Black racism…

Students of color in predominantly White institutions (PWI's) encounter racial microaggressions, the often subtle, but powerful, offensive experiences that are steeped in racism and occur in the course of everyday life. They also experience racial microaffirmations--moments where their racial identities or racialized realities are affirmed,…

This article explores the outcomes of instruction employing a pedagogy of discomfort (or disequilibrium)--a teaching style that embraces discomfort as a part of the learning process--in a teacher preparation program. Drawing on data from a case study, we present findings from our work involving teacher candidates in discussions about social…

This article presents an autoethnographic reflection from three education scholars--a white man, a Latinx woman, and a Black woman--on the institutional presence of whiteness in the academy. We started developing this reflection when jointly conducting a study of faculty and students of color in a predominantly white institution (PWI). Ongoing…