The invalidating and marginalizing experiences of faculty of color, the political minefields of the K-12 experience, and the many microaggressions experienced by untenured university faculty are each deeply disturbing and multifaceted issues yet this book manages to bring them together and finds the disturbing truths underlying them all. Chapter 7 brought me to my knees because of the graphic reminders of the constant microaggressions, sexism, racism and disdain for family life and responsibilities have been pervasive throughout my academic career. This book will not make you comfortable, but I advise that any aspiring faculty member read it, particularly those who differ from the fully tenured professorial norm by gender, race, religion, class background, beliefs, etc. As someone told me early in my doctoral studies, Most of this is hazing and the less you look like the typical members of the club, the more hazing you get. This book illustrates that truth. I would love to share it with administrators, tenure committees and others in positions of power but I sadly doubt they would recognize themselves between it covers. -- Elizabeth Kelley Rhoades, Southern Connecticut State University
