Through My Lens

A Video Project about Women of Color Faculty at the University of Michigan

Bibliographic Data

ID4979154
AuthorsFrances R Aparicio (0000-0001-6650-6635, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume25
Issue1
Pages119
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0046-3663 • E-ISSN: 2153-3873
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3216674
OpenAlexW2608587654
LanguageEN
Citations received10

For some time now, the media, state legislatures, and the legal system have questioned the rationale behind affirmative action and, thus, have aimed to eradicate the presence and role of minorities in higher education. Ironically, faculty of color are still greatly underrepresented at the university level; and many face isolation, racial and gender-based antagonisms, the devaluation of their research interests and achievements, insufficient mentoring and support mechanisms, and ambivalence about their academic authority. In addition, they face the serious challenge of reconciling dominant career values with the demands of cultural traditions and family life. Although many of these issues are shared by white women faculty and by faculty of color in general, women of color face double forms of marginalization in terms of race and gender; indeed, our very presence simultaneously challenges traditional boundaries, be they departmental, disciplinary, epistemological, racial, or sociocultural. Given these concerns, in 1995 the Center for the Education of Women and the Women's Studies Program at the University of Michigan proposed the establishment of the Women of Color in the Academy Project (WOCAP).1 Constituted by a network of women of color faculty throughout the university, and led by a steering committee, WOCAP has emerged as a central site for networking and community formation among its members as it continues to serve as a resource for information and support. The

Ambivalence · Discipline · Face (sociological concept) · Legislature · Political science · Public relations · Race (biology) · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · State (computer science) · White (mutation) · Women of color · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Mentoring and Academic Development · Psychology · Social Psychology

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