Kofi Lomotey & William A. Smith 
The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education, Third Edition 

A crisis of immense magnitude persists in higher education in the United States. For this third edition of
The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education, Kofi Lomotey and William A. Smith have gathered outstanding scholars in the field to address this dilemma on several levels. In thirteen original essays, contributors establish a framework for understanding the current crisis, provide historical perspective on the present, offer a stark overview of the day-to-day realities on campuses, and illustrate the role and impact of university leadership. With a foreword by Donald B. Pope-Davis and an afterword by Valerie Kinloch, as well as an introduction by the editors, the volume is provocative, up-to-date, and solution-driven, giving readers both a comprehensive analysis of the racial crisis in American higher education and ideas for addressing it.

Table of Content

List of Illustrations

Foreword


Donald B. Pope-Davis

Introduction


William A. Smith and Kofi Lomotey




Part 1. Contextualizing the Crisis



1. Institutionalized White Racism: The Impact on US Higher Education


Kofi Lomotey



2. Who Gets “Left Out”: Pacific Islanders, Data Aggregation, and Native Erasure


Kēhaulani Vaughn



3. Black Male Genocide: Systemic Racism and Implications for Black Male Presence and Success in Higher Education


Shiver, Maria Ashkin, Jimmy Kendall, and Evelyn Ezikwelu




Part 2. Considering History



4. Presidential Responses to Campus Racism: A Historical Perspective


Eddie R. Cole



5. Race-Conscious Affirmative Action in US Higher Education in an Era of Pronounced White Racial Backlash


Maria C. Ledesma, Uma Mazyck Jayakumar, and Kenyon L. Whitman




Part 3. The Day-to-Day Realities



6. The Psychosocial Antecedents of Racial Battle Fatigue


William A. Smith



7. Outsiders Within: Black Faculty in US Higher Education


Channel C. Mc Lewis, Chantal Jones, Gadise Regassa, and Walter R. Allen



8. African American Faculty and Administrators in Higher Education: From Recruitment to Retention


Na Lor and Jerlando F. L. Jackson



9. Asian American Faculty Discrimination: Why Does It Matter?


Robert T. Teranishi, Rose Ann Rico Eborda Gutierrez, and Annie Le




Part 4. Leadership Does Matter



10. HBCU Activism: The Evolving Role of HBCUs in Resolving Racial Tensions and Advancing Racial Conciliation in Higher Education


Ivory A. Toldson, Bianca M. Mack, and Temple R. Price



11. Exploring the Latinx-Servingness of Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions


Cheryl Ching



12. Black Women Faculty Engendering Brave (Online) Spaces for Black/Students of Color and Themselves


M. Billye Sankofa Waters, Mounira Morris, and Cherese Childers-Mc Kee



13. Diversity Leadership at the University of Michigan: From Desegregation to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion


Phillip J. Bowman, Jamillah B. Williams, Angela Ebreo, and Nia D. Holland



Afterword: Equity, Justice, and
The Racial Crisis


Valerie Kinloch

Contributors

Index

About the author

Kofi Lomotey is Chancellor John Bardo and Deborah Bardo Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership at Western Carolina University. His many books include
Justice for Black Students: Black Principals Matter and
Handbook of Urban Education, Second Edition (coedited with H. Richard Milner IV).
William A. Smith is Full Professor of Education, Culture, and Society and Full Professor in the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Utah. He also serves as Chief Executive Administrator for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute at the University of Utah.