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

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.

Table of Contents:
Foreword  CAROLINE SOTELLO VIERNES TURNER Preface  TRACY LACHICA BUENAVISTA, DIMPAL JAIN, AND MARÍA C. LEDESMA Introduction: Toward a First-Generation Faculty Epistemology  MARÍA C. LEDESMA PART ONE Research Illustration: Research with Community, Not on Community  1 Food on the Table: The Hidden Curriculum of the Academic Job Market  DIMPAL JAIN 2 Neoliberal Racism and the Experiences of First-Generation Asian American Scholars  VARAXY YI AND SAMUEL D. MUSEUS 3 A Nanny’s Daughter in the Academy  MARIA ESTELA ZARATE 4 On Navigating with Flavor: A Reluctant Professor on the Pathway Here  DARRICK SMITH 5 What Are We Willing to Sacrifice? Mental Health among First-Generation Faculty of Color  OMAR RUVALCABA PART TWO Teaching Illustration: “Échale Ganas”  6 The Classroom as Negotiated Space: A Chinese-Vietnamese American Community College Faculty Experience  CINDY N. PHU 7 Taking Up Space: Reflections from a Latina and a Filipino American Faculty Teaching for Racial Justice  NORMA A. MARRUN AND CONSTANCIO R. ARNALDO JR. 8 Ambitions as a Ridah: Using Lived Experience as a Professional Asset Instead of a Liability  PATRICK ROZ CAMANGIAN 9 Sage and Tissue Boxes: Critical Race Feminista Perspectives on Office Hours  JOSÉ M. AGUILAR-HERNÁNDEZ AND ALMA ITZÉ FLORES PART THREE Service Illustration: Service Perception versus Service Reality  10 Financial Redistribution as Faculty Service: “The Hustle” and Challenging Racist Classism in the Neoliberal University  TRACY LACHICA BUENAVISTA 11 Mexicana and Boricua First-Generation Scholars: Serving Our Communities with Alma, Mente y Corazón  JUDITH FLORES CARMONA, IVELISSE TORRES FERNANDEZ, AND EDIL TORRES RIVERA 12 Continuing Cultural Mismatches: Reflections from a First-Generation Latina Faculty Navigating the Academy  REBECCA COVARRUBIAS 13 Fugitivity within the University as First-Generation Black-Pinay, Indigenous, and Chicanx Faculty: Cultivating an Undercommons  NINI HAYES, DOLORES CALDERÓN, AND VERÓNICA NELLY VÉLEZ Acknowledgments  Notes on Contributors  Index