Reclaiming Our Time
A 21st-Century Response to Banks’ “Afro-American Scholars in the University”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10856411 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard J Reddick (0000-0001-8908-7891, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 238-266 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-0859 • E-ISSN: 1552-8340 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0042085918805805 |
| OpenAlex | W2896689516 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 35 |
William Banks’ 1984 article “Afro-American Scholars in the University” situated Black faculty at predominantly White institutions in a milieu noting the uses and misuses of Black scholars, constituencies in conflict, the range of responses from Black scholars, and the standards and realities for their advancement in academia. Banks further discussed the stigma of affirmative action and the burden of symbolism for Black faculty. This article, written in the #BlackLivesMatter and Trump era, engages with the same questions that Banks raised 34 years prior. This response expands the context to the field of urban education, and Black urban educators in the academy particularly, through an analysis of community engagement experiences, the burdens of cultural taxation, and the impact of affirmative action in a post-Fisher political context. Incorporating events both inside and outside of academia, the author considers the centrality of creating spaces of resistance and leveraging the gains for Black academics over the past three decades to alter the standards of the academy to support Black scholars and their allies
Academic freedom · Affirmative action · Black Power · Context (archaeology) · Higher education · Political science · Politics · Situated · Sociology · White (mutation) · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Higher Education Research Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
Reimagining Critical Race Theory in Education
Borderlands/La Frontera
Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy
The Black Revolution on Campus
“Assume the Position . . . You Fit the Description”
An Apartheid of Knowledge in Academia
Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth
Faculty Service Loads and Gender
The Lived Experience of Black Nurse Faculty in Predominantly White Schools of Nursing
Coping with the Unexpected
Entertainers or education researchers? The challenges associated with presenting while black
Navigating marginality en route to the professoriate
The Department Is Very Male, Very White, Very Old, and Very Conservative
College Readiness and Academic Preparation for Postsecondary Education
Historically White Universities and Plantation Politics
Improving Race Relations in Higher Education
Faculty Socialization
But What is Urban Education
The Heterogeneity of Resistance
Afro-American Scholars in the University
A history of white violence tells us attacks on black academics are not ending (I know because it happened to me)
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |