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Microaggressions, Marginalization, and Stress: Issues of Identity, Place, and Home for Minority Faculty in Academia

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Social relations between racial minority faculty and dominant group (white) faculty are chronicled by racial and ethnic minority faculty through their narrative accounts in the research literature of microaggressions they experience in academia. Treating these narrative accounts as archival data can serve as a research strategy for understanding the presence and voice of racial and ethnic minority faculty in colleges and universities. I examine the experiences of racial and ethnic minority faculty found in the research literature. My examination of their experiences frames the context for discussing the social relations between minority faculty and dominant group faculty. I argue that an examination of the social relations of racial and ethnic minority faculty with dominant group faculty serves as a window for observing institutional practices that situate the presence of racial and ethnic minority faculty in academia and which, as a result, produce social and psychological stress for minority faculty regarding questions of identity, place, and home in the academic culture.

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Aguirre, A. (2020). Microaggressions, Marginalization, and Stress: Issues of Identity, Place, and Home for Minority Faculty in Academia. In: Benuto, L., Duckworth, M., Masuda, A., O'Donohue, W. (eds) Prejudice, Stigma, Privilege, and Oppression. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35517-3_19

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