When Lorgia García-Peña became a professor, she found herself in the unworkable bargain of so many scholars of color. The solution was community.
Soon after I was hired as assistant professor of Latinx studies, my department, Romance Languages and Literatures, was presented with what in the university we refer to as a “line,” the opportunity to hire a full-time tenured or tenure-track professTenure is an unusual system, unique to academia, that guarantees lifetime employment for faculty.
In this dire employment climate in which humanities units, such as Romance Languages, English, and Comparative Literatures, have been hemorrhaging student enrollment for decades all across the United States, hearing that our Romance Languages and Literatures department had received the approval of a tenured line was beyond exciting.
The experiences of unbelonging that shape life in the university for students and faculty of color—particularly those of us who come from working families and who are the first in our families to obtain college degrees—are sustained by white supremacy, by the belief that we, as minoritized people of color, do not belong; that we are only allowed to be part of these institutions because of our race and gender rather than despite it; that we are the “diversity hires.
While “strangers” like myself are sometimes invited to be part of the elite university through neoliberal practices of diversity and inclusion, ultimately, to preserve the harmony of the institution, we are also asked to assimilate via silence or erasure. Over the years, I have been advised by colleagues to “smile more,” “be careful not to let people know you’re a single parent,” “make sure you don’t speak Caribbean Spanish with your colleagues,” and perhaps “lose a little weight.
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