Academic Hazing

In the spirit of Zora Neale Hurston One of the most enraging, hurtful things that I experience in my career is to watch my Black academic colleagues write about, give conference papers on, and build their entire careers around the critical analysis of the writings of Zora Neale Hurston while…

As an English doctorate, I did not go into education for the common reason that America says I should. I also did not sign up for the overt and covert racism that I experience in the English department at the hands of my colleagues. This is a personal essay. Rarely…