Conditionally accepted: navigating higher education from the margins

Introduction / Eric Joy Denise and Bertin M. Louis Jr.

Part I. Navigating our way within (or out of) academia. Navigating the Africana Studies joint faculty position / N. Fadeke Castor and Bertin M. Louis, Jr.

From associate to full professor / Keisha N. Blain

Don't sell yourself short: starting your own business as an academic / Manya Whitaker

The unbearable whiteness of economics: an interview with Gary "Hoov" Hoover

Conditional, but essential, contingency / Kelly Fong

A Black woman's journey from academia to the community: an interview with Alisha Winn, applied anthropologist

Part II. Disciplinary and institutional betrayals. Institutional betrayals: the costs are high / Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt

Conditionally invisible: Indigenous invisibilization in US academia / Robin Starr Minthorn

The institutional othering of disability: a graduate student's perspective on ableism in higher education / Sarah Manchanda

Dealing with sexual harassment as a junior Black woman scholar / Shantel Gabrieal Buggs

Denied tenure: to be conditionally unaccepted / Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder

Part III. Diversity rhetoric and empty promises. This is your pipeline problem: the far-reaching effects of the mistreatment of senior faculty of color / Amelia Gibson

Faculty of color and the changing university / Adia Harvey Wingfield

From good intentions to inclusive behaviors: achieving the diversity goals we profess in academia / Neil Anthony Lewis Jr.

Dismantling whiteness in academia / Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

Part IV. Transforming the academy and beyond. Becoming a Chicano scholar-activist: key lessons and takeaways / Álvaro Huerta

Why I write for the public / Victor Erik Ray

The price of sanctuary at a Hispanic-serving institution / Aimee Villarreal

Embracing scholar-activism as legitimate academic work / Eric Joy Denise.