Opinion | M Shelly Conner: Nikole Hannah-Jones’ tenure struggle reinforces why HBCUs are so vital
Although the University of Illinois at Chicago itself was diverse, my Ph.D. program mirrored those at predominantly white institutions, and I was the only Black student in my cohort. In retrospect, I view it as a very kind introduction to marginalization and the experience of being part of a group in such a way that you can be detached from it like a perforated line denoting where a portion of paper can be severed.
My first post-doctoral teaching position — a one-year, nonrenewable role at a predominantly white institution on Chicago’s North Side — was an intense exercise in unbelonging. Student evaluations called me racist for teaching African American literature and ungrateful for not being enthusiastic enough for being there.
Now as a tenure-track professor building my mid-tenure review portfolio, I think about my service as a professor and a mentor to all of my students regardingW.E.B. DuBois predicted in 1903 that the color line would be “the problem of the 20th century,” but it certainly has endured well into the 21st.
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