Teresa Y. Neely is Professor of Librarianship at the University of New Mexico, USA.Margie Montañez is Assistant Professor and Curator of Latin American collections at the University of New Mexico, USA.

• Introduction: unmasking the personal, professional, and intersectional interstices of whiteness in higher educationMargie Montañez and Teresa Y. NeelyPart I: Foregrounding whiteness as a social structure in higher educationChapter 1: Justice in action in the ivory towers: decolonial and anti-racist work inside/outside the master’s houseEric CastilloChapter 2: sketching otherwise im/possibilities: meditations against and beyond the statenicholae cline and Jorge R. López-McKnightChapter 3: Vital elements in the deconstruction of whiteness and eurocentrism in higher education work settingsJ. E. Jamal MartinChapter 4: Pervasive whiteness vs. black women in academia Sheryl Felecia MeansChapter 5: Microaffections and microaffirmations: refusing to reproduce whiteness via microaffirmative actionsIsabel EspinalPart II: The case of academic librariesChapter 6: Why are you Brown? Racial microaggressions in Canadian academic librariesDee WinnChapter 7: I don’t know if I’m surviving, but I’m still here: Reflections on 20-plus years in academic librarianshipNikhat J. GhouseChapter 8: Same scat, different century: An [unremarkable] history of inaction in US libraries and archivesDeborah R. Hollis Part III: Erasures, absences, silences, and violence in higher education Chapter 9: Threefer: Poetic reflections on resistance to misogynoirBelinda Deneen WallaceChapter 10: Is the door half-opened or half-closed? Advancing a career after Black Culture Center workBrandi Wells-StoneChapter 11: African American male faculty: A study of their experiences related to intercultural competence at predominantly white institutionsHervey A. Taylor IIIChapter 12: The life of a Black college athleteKeon R. WilliamsChapter 13: They took my hair—racial battle fatigue in academe: Accounts from the plantationEvangela Q. OatesChapter 14: Scholar while Black: Theorizing race-gender micro/macroaggressions as covert racist actions for maintaining white domination in academia in a “Post-Racial” SocietyMichael Muhammad and Nancy LópezPart IV: Identity PoliticsChapter 15: Exterior college campusDerrick JeffersonChapter 16: Decolonizing our hearts and our mindsNicole A. Cooke Chapter 17: Merit, gate keeping, and the myth of meritocracyStephanie Akau Chapter 18: Home is where you are: An open letter to my academic AuntieTeyAnjulee LeonChapter 19: Road trip: Heavy luggage and the doctoral HBCU experienceLaKeshia Darden

Teresa Y. Neely is Professor of Librarianship at the University of New Mexico, USA.Margie Montañez is Assistant Professor and Curator of Latin American collections at the University of New Mexico, USA.

• Introduction: unmasking the personal, professional, and intersectional interstices of whiteness in higher educationMargie Montañez and Teresa Y. NeelyPart I: Foregrounding whiteness as a social structure in higher educationChapter 1: Justice in action in the ivory towers: decolonial and anti-racist work inside/outside the master’s houseEric CastilloChapter 2: sketching otherwise im/possibilities: meditations against and beyond the statenicholae cline and Jorge R. López-McKnightChapter 3: Vital elements in the deconstruction of whiteness and eurocentrism in higher education work settingsJ. E. Jamal MartinChapter 4: Pervasive whiteness vs. black women in academia Sheryl Felecia MeansChapter 5: Microaffections and microaffirmations: refusing to reproduce whiteness via microaffirmative actionsIsabel EspinalPart II: The case of academic librariesChapter 6: Why are you Brown? Racial microaggressions in Canadian academic librariesDee WinnChapter 7: I don’t know if I’m surviving, but I’m still here: Reflections on 20-plus years in academic librarianshipNikhat J. GhouseChapter 8: Same scat, different century: An [unremarkable] history of inaction in US libraries and archivesDeborah R. Hollis Part III: Erasures, absences, silences, and violence in higher education Chapter 9: Threefer: Poetic reflections on resistance to misogynoirBelinda Deneen WallaceChapter 10: Is the door half-opened or half-closed? Advancing a career after Black Culture Center workBrandi Wells-StoneChapter 11: African American male faculty: A study of their experiences related to intercultural competence at predominantly white institutionsHervey A. Taylor IIIChapter 12: The life of a Black college athleteKeon R. WilliamsChapter 13: They took my hair—racial battle fatigue in academe: Accounts from the plantationEvangela Q. OatesChapter 14: Scholar while Black: Theorizing race-gender micro/macroaggressions as covert racist actions for maintaining white domination in academia in a “Post-Racial” SocietyMichael Muhammad and Nancy LópezPart IV: Identity PoliticsChapter 15: Exterior college campusDerrick JeffersonChapter 16: Decolonizing our hearts and our mindsNicole A. Cooke Chapter 17: Merit, gate keeping, and the myth of meritocracyStephanie Akau Chapter 18: Home is where you are: An open letter to my academic AuntieTeyAnjulee LeonChapter 19: Road trip: Heavy luggage and the doctoral HBCU experienceLaKeshia Darden

Teresa Y. Neely is Professor of Librarianship at the University of New Mexico, USA.Margie Montañez is Assistant Professor and Curator of Latin American collections at the University of New Mexico, USA.

• Introduction: unmasking the personal, professional, and intersectional interstices of whiteness in higher educationMargie Montañez and Teresa Y. NeelyPart I: Foregrounding whiteness as a social structure in higher educationChapter 1: Justice in action in the ivory towers: decolonial and anti-racist work inside/outside the master’s houseEric CastilloChapter 2: sketching otherwise im/possibilities: meditations against and beyond the statenicholae cline and Jorge R. López-McKnightChapter 3: Vital elements in the deconstruction of whiteness and eurocentrism in higher education work settingsJ. E. Jamal MartinChapter 4: Pervasive whiteness vs. black women in academia Sheryl Felecia MeansChapter 5: Microaffections and microaffirmations: refusing to reproduce whiteness via microaffirmative actionsIsabel EspinalPart II: The case of academic librariesChapter 6: Why are you Brown? Racial microaggressions in Canadian academic librariesDee WinnChapter 7: I don’t know if I’m surviving, but I’m still here: Reflections on 20-plus years in academic librarianshipNikhat J. GhouseChapter 8: Same scat, different century: An [unremarkable] history of inaction in US libraries and archivesDeborah R. Hollis Part III: Erasures, absences, silences, and violence in higher education Chapter 9: Threefer: Poetic reflections on resistance to misogynoirBelinda Deneen WallaceChapter 10: Is the door half-opened or half-closed? Advancing a career after Black Culture Center workBrandi Wells-StoneChapter 11: African American male faculty: A study of their experiences related to intercultural competence at predominantly white institutionsHervey A. Taylor IIIChapter 12: The life of a Black college athleteKeon R. WilliamsChapter 13: They took my hair—racial battle fatigue in academe: Accounts from the plantationEvangela Q. OatesChapter 14: Scholar while Black: Theorizing race-gender micro/macroaggressions as covert racist actions for maintaining white domination in academia in a “Post-Racial” SocietyMichael Muhammad and Nancy LópezPart IV: Identity PoliticsChapter 15: Exterior college campusDerrick JeffersonChapter 16: Decolonizing our hearts and our mindsNicole A. Cooke Chapter 17: Merit, gate keeping, and the myth of meritocracyStephanie Akau Chapter 18: Home is where you are: An open letter to my academic AuntieTeyAnjulee LeonChapter 19: Road trip: Heavy luggage and the doctoral HBCU experienceLaKeshia Darden