The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure Without Losing Your Soul

By Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy

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For an African American scholar, who may be the lone minority in a department, navigating the tenure minefield can be a particularly harrowing process. Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy go beyond standard professional resources to serve up practical advice for black faculty intent on playing - and winning - the tenure game. Addressing head-on how power and the thorny politics of race converge in the academy, "The Black Academic's Guide" is full of invaluable tips and hard-earned wisdom. It is an essential handbook that will help black faculty survive and thrive in academia without losing their voices, or their integrity. It goes beyond standard professional resources to serve up practical advice for black faculty intent on playing - and winning - the tenure game.



Raising Biracial Children

By Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy

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As the multiracial population in the United States continues to rise, new models for our understanding of mixed-race children and their conception of racial identity must be developed. Raising Biracial Children provides parents, educators, social workers, and anyone interested in multiracial issues with an accessible framework for understanding healthy mixed-race identity development and to translate those findings into practical care-giving strategies.



Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America

By Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma

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The urgent debate over a multiracial category in the 2000 census forced the nation to reflect upon the important questions of what it means to construct and maintain a racial identity. Using in-depth interviews and survey data, iBeyond Blacki documents how biracial people develop many different racial identities and how these self-understandings are derived from historical and contemporary social, cultural, interactional, and psychological processes.