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Title: Social and Economic Organization of the Black Professoriate at Predominately-white Colleges and Universities

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: Two prominent ways of viewing U.S. inequality are American apartheid and concentrated poverty. These perspectives are largely geographic ones. This manuscript argues it is necessary to view the reproduction of the black professoriate through a relational lens. The relational view is a conflict one that focuses on daily activities to subjugate the black professoriate. This manuscript establishes why the relational view is important vis--vis geographic views. It then presents data to show disparities of the black professoriate class when compared to the white professoriate class. Using U.S. Census data, it selects fulltime in the labor market respondents holding doctoral degrees, and it finds that in relative terms the social and economic position of black Americans is similar to the social and economic position of the black professoriate. It then uses an autoethnographic method and it shows how black professoriate degradation is quotidian reproduction.

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Authors: Lemelle, Anthony J.

Periodical (Full): Journal of African American Studies

Issue: 1

Volume: 14

Pages: 106-127

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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