The Permanence Of Racism

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According to Aguirre (2000), the popular image of the academia is of an “Ivory Tower.” However, the domain of the academia has also been referred to as a “chilly and alienating” environment for faculty of color (p. 19). This is compounded by the enormous amount of challenges and commitments that faculty of color have to endure. These include serving as an advisor or mentor to minority or international students, participating in diversity related committees, and other unequal service expectations that are not required of their White counterparts (p. 19). According to Padilla (1994), this cultural taxation is negatively impacting the experience of faculty of color, specifically, men of color as they are more often reached out to because of …show more content…
CRT scholars strongly believe that race and racism is a permanent, powerful, dominant and a normal component of American society (DeCuir & Dixson, 2004; Ladson-Billings, 1998; Lynn et al., 2002; Solórzano & Yosso, 2002). CRT scholars believe this so passionately that they are more surprised at the absence of racism than they are by its presence (Broido & Manning, 2002). According to Lopez (2003) society fails to see racism because it is an everyday experience that is often taken for granted. Racism is so common that society fails to realize how it functions and how it shapes our institutions, relationships, and ways of thinking (McCoy, 2006). The ultimate goal of CRT is to expose White privilege and display a society that is deeply divided by racial …show more content…
The students come to the campus from all 50 states and more than 46 countries. What has interested me in this area of inquiry is though Upstate University is diverse and growing with in the student population, the faculty of color numbers are constantly low and declining. Michaels (2011), states that the widespread sense that faculties at U.S. colleges and universities need to be more diverse is tied to the sense that the students at U.S. colleges and universities have become more diverse, which indeed they have (p. 1). According to Schien (2004), embedded cultural beliefs survives even when new members enter the institution and some old members depart because group members value stability in that it provides meaning and predictability (p. 14). Because of this embedded system of acculturation at Upstate University, it is perceived that tensions around race, gender, social class, and sexuality are largely prevalent on this campus. According to Osterman and Kottkamp (2004), acculturation is defined as the adoption of behavior patterns of the surrounding culture (p.
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