“Raced” Organizations and the Academic Success of Underrepresented Minority Faculty Members in Sociology

Spalter-Roth, Roberta; Shin, Jean H.; Smith, Jason A.; Kalb, Amber C.; Moore, Kyle; Cid-Martinez, Ismael; Toney, Jermaine

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“…These findings follow those of other researchers'. For example, a recent study [47] report women of color faculty were the least likely to believe that their research was valued by colleagues, citing a lack of respect from colleagues for their intellectual interests and/or research agendas. The pressure URM faculty feel to constantly "justify their existence" to their colleagues can foster a workplace environment where microaggressions are supported by the "chilly" institutional climate towards URM faculty and their work, especially at predominately White Institutions.…”

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Obstacles to Sustaining Diversity: Historical Context and Current Experiences of Underrepresented Minority Women and Men in Sociology and Economics

Spalter-Roth

2021

Sustainability

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White men predominate in the top ranks of the professorate, but recent efforts have attempted to decrease inequality and increase diversity in the academy by hiring more faculty, especially women of color. Have equality and diversity efforts worked or has negative departmental climate limited efforts to make diversity sustainable? Despite the long history of and many contributions by women of color (URC) as public intellectuals, activists, and founders of organizations to promote Blacks and Latino/a people, we find that much of their work is still marginalized and is not viewed as legitimate science. This treatment may lessen the ability to increase equality and sustain diversity in academic institutions. The paper tests whether URC women scholars are still experiencing inequalities in comparison to their male peers of color in two disciplines, that of sociology and economics. We include these two disciplines because of similarities in origin and of topics. First, we hypothesize that women of color have significantly more negative experiences in sociology and economics departments than do men of color, when other conditions are held constant. Second, we hypothesize that structural conditions, are related to experiential outcomes for these scholars. Third, we hypothesize that participation in minority-oriented organizations improves women of color’s experiences. Fourth, we hypothesize that interacting gender with participation in minority-oriented organizations, significantly improves women of color’s situation. The study results show that women of color continue to experience greater problems of access, marginality, inclusion, and harassment in sociology and economics departments. The sustainable development goals of achieving gender equality and increase educational opportunities cannot be achieve without addressing these inequities and inclusion issues.

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Section: Conclusion and Policies To Sustain Diversity And Equalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Obstacles to Sustaining Diversity: Historical Context and Current Experiences of Underrepresented Minority Women and Men in Sociology and Economics

Spalter-Roth

2021

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Becoming a Multiracial Scholar by Traversing Monoracial Academia

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Combs

2022

Preparing for Higher Education’s Mixed Race Future

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Black on Black: The Vilification of “Me-Search,” Tenure, and the Economic Position of Black Sociologists

Harris

2020

J Econ Race Policy

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“Raced” Organizations and the Academic Success of Underrepresented Minority Faculty Members in Sociology

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

Obstacles to Sustaining Diversity: Historical Context and Current Experiences of Underrepresented Minority Women and Men in Sociology and Economics

Obstacles to Sustaining Diversity: Historical Context and Current Experiences of Underrepresented Minority Women and Men in Sociology and Economics

Becoming a Multiracial Scholar by Traversing Monoracial Academia

Black on Black: The Vilification of “Me-Search,” Tenure, and the Economic Position of Black Sociologists

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