First-Generation Faculty of Color: Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service

By: María C. Ledesma and Dimpal Jain and Varaxy Yi and Samuel D. Museus and Maria Estela Zarate and Darrick Smith and Omar Ruvalcaba and Cindy Phu and Norma A. Marrun and Constancio R. Arnaldo and Patrick Roz Camangian and José M. Aguilar-Hernández and Alma Itzé Flores and Tracy Lachica Buenavista and Judith Flores Carmona and Ivelisse Torres Fernandez and Edil Torres Rivera and Rebecca Covarrubias and Nini Hayes and Dolores Calderón and Verónica Nelly Vélez

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Synopsis: First-Generation Faculty of Color: Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service is the first book to examine the experiences of racially minoritized faculty who were also the first in their families to graduate college in the United States. From contingent to tenured faculty who teach at community colleges, comprehensive, and research institutions, the book is a collection of critical narratives that collectively show the diversity of faculty of color, attentive to and beyond race. The book is organized into three major parts comprised of chapters in which faculty of color depict how first-generation college student identities continue to inform how minoritized people navigate academe well into their professional careers, and encourage them to reconceptualize research, teaching, and service responsibilities to better consider the families and communities that shaped their lives well before college.