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- Title
Color-evasive Racism in the Final Stage of Faculty Searches: Examining Search Committee Hiring Practices that Jeopardize Racial Equity Policy.
- Authors
Liera, Román; Hernandez, Theresa E.
- Abstract
This case study examined how color-evasive racism operated through search committee members' practices in ways that undermined university policy created to centralize racial equity in faculty hiring. Findings show that abstract liberalism, racialized decoupling, and racialized agency impeded the realization of an equitable search process. Faculty engaged in these color-evasive [End Page 181] practices through selectively applying hiring criteria, undermining racial equity work, compartmentalizing racial equity work, and discrediting committee members trained in equity-mindedness. The findings illustrate how power imbalances on search committees may lead to decoupling policies, processes, and outcomes that reproduce racial inequity in faculty hiring, particularly in the final stage.
- Subjects
RACISM in higher education; RACIAL inequality; COLLEGE teachers; UNIVERSITY faculty; MANAGEMENT committees
- Publication
Review of Higher Education, 2021, Vol 45, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0162-5748
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/rhe.2021.0020