The starting point for this study was through the auspices of our professional scholarly society, the American Anthropological Association. In 2007, then-president Alan Goodman appointed a commission charged with two primary responsibilities:
"(1) to collect information in order to better expose how privilege has been maintained in anthropology and the AAA, including but not limited to departments and the academic pipeline and
"(2) to develop a comprehensive plan for the Association and for the field of anthropology to increase the ethnic, racial, gender and class diversity of the discipline and organization."
Many of the responsibilities about investigating and mapping the field of anthropology and the role of the Association were discharged with the publication of the Commission's Final Report in 2010. However, we are anthropologists and we found ourselves wanting to bring the anthropological lens to another kind of project, an ethnography—the systematic description of human culture—of the academy, to more fully describe the lived experiences of racism in colleges and universities. Thus Audrey Smedley and Janis Faye Hutchinson, two members of the commission, found themselves organizing additional findings in a volume entitled, RACISM
IN THE ACADEMY: The New
Millennium.
Introduction by Audrey Smedley and Janis Faye Hutchinson
Racism in the Academy: Toward a Multi-Methodological
Agenda for
Anthropological Engagement by Faye V. Harrison
Parallel Paradigms: Racial Diversity and Racism at
Universities by Janis Faye Hutchinson
A Black Woman's Ordeal in White Universities by Audrey Smedley
I Will Make Allowances for Your Creativity by Maria Inez Winfield
Dismantling Africana Studies at Rutgers University by Walton R. Johnson
Black Woman in Charge: Role
Displacement in a Midwest Majority Institutionby Sheilah F. Clarke-Ekong
Racism in the Academy: Ideology, Practice, and
Ambiguity by George Clement Bond
Racism in Anthropology: Same Discipline, Different
Decade by Rolonda Teal
Sexism and Racism in Academe: Why the Struggle Must
Continue by Cheryl Mwaria
"He Fit the Description": Prejudice and Pain in Progressive
Communities by J. Lorand Matory
Negotiating Racism in the Academy by Arthur K. Spears
Conclusions
About the Authors
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