Black academic voices: the South African experience
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2019
TITLE EDITOR(S): G.Khunou, E.D.Phaswana, K.Khoza-Shangase, H.Canham
KEYWORDS: ACADEMIC PERSONNEL, ACADEMIC PERSONNEL, HISTORICALLY WHITE UNIVERSITIES, INEQUALITY
DEPARTMENT: Deputy CEO: Research (DCEO_R), Deputy CEO: Research (ERKC), Deputy CEO: Research (CGI)
Web link: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/black-academic-voices-1
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10899
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/14010
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/14010
TITLE EDITOR(S): G.Khunou, E.D.Phaswana, K.Khoza-Shangase, H.Canham
KEYWORDS: ACADEMIC PERSONNEL, ACADEMIC PERSONNEL, HISTORICALLY WHITE UNIVERSITIES, INEQUALITY
DEPARTMENT: Deputy CEO: Research (DCEO_R), Deputy CEO: Research (ERKC), Deputy CEO: Research (CGI)
Web link: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/black-academic-voices-1
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10899
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/14010
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/14010
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Abstract
Black Academic Voices captures the personal accounts of lived experiences of black academics at South African universities in the context of the ongoing debate for transformation and decolonization of higher education. This debate has not only raised epistemic, ideological, relational and identity issues in the academy, but also offers possibilities for deconstructing hierarchies of authoritarianism that are racist, sexist, patriarchal and colonial. While many scholars have had the opportunity to explore the challenges of higher education transformation since 1994, very few black academics have had the chance to tell their stories in the biographical form. This book, therefore, seeks to fill this gap with the aim of defining what it means to be black in the South African Academy Post 1994, South Africa has presented us with a plethora of structural and relational challenges that perpetuate the precarious state of black people in many institutions, including the academy. It has been crafted in such a way that the contributors find themselves oscillating between the different life trajectories as students and as members of faculty in historically white universities where being black seems to be a challenge. While it seemed evidently difficult at this point in the history of the academy for black academics to capture positive experiences of our universities, the emerging consensus among all contributors illustrate that the academy is a worthwhile endeavour. The broader intention of this book is to present evidence demonstrating why black academics leave the academy. Furthermore, to illustrate how subtle and at times overt exclusion continue to be part of the everyday experiences of black academics. Black Academic Voices is in three parts: the misrepresentation of black bodies; the heterogenous black experience; and Affirmation of self through empowering and inspiration of the other.-
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