Race, Women of Color, and the State University System: Critical Reflections - Paperback

by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw (Editor), Amarilis (Editor)

Race, Women of Color, and the State University System focuses on challenges women of color experience or have experienced while teaching or pursuing administrative duties within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The book systematically examines how women of color -- administrators, faculty, and staff -- cope with the demands of the profession, their disciplines, the expectations from the system, and the isolation that comes with working in institutions and/or environments that are predominately all white. The book identifies challenges that are unique to the state system, although they may be applicable to the academy in general. Contributors, through their testimonies and shared experiences, provide academic tools and strategies to navigate the academy successfully.

Author Biography

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw is an associate professor at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. As a former professor of English education in the Department of English at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, she taught literature and composition courses and coordinated the Secondary English program. Before then she taught English language arts at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.
Amarilis Hidalgo-de Jesús is a professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. She teaches language, culture, and literature classes in English and Spanish. She previously taught languages at Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman University).