The mobility of graduate education to the Professoriate can be attributed to a large extent to mentorship networks. Add to the mentorship networks the publication and teaching record, the performance during a campus visit etc. Add to these ingredients a whole lot of factors beyond our control, such as the jobs available the year of graduation, the search committee configuration, and plain-and-simple luck. The coming together of these many different factors play out in shaping the places in which academics end up. For academics of colour, these are constituted amidst disciplinary #Whiteness. We each learn to perform these techniques of Whiteness to survive in academia, working also hopefully to challenge it. Negotiating these countours of an already uneven discipline, Neha found herself in an Assistant Professor job in Community College. Graduating with her Ph.D. the year after 9/11 meant that the number of jobs available to a Brown woman academic studying imperial media were limited, w
This blog offers Mohan Dutta's reflections on the theoretical framework of the culture-centered approach, examining the interplays among Structure, Culture, and Agency in shaping marginalisation and the ways in which communities at the margins challenge structures. Writings on the blog are continually being revised to reflect the organic analysis of structure and agency.