"It's Just a Social Obligation. You Could Say 'No'!": Cultural and Religious Barriers of American Indian Faculty in the Academy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. Anne Calhoun
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 132-154
Description
Author discusses the pressure put on Indigenous academics by their Euro-American colleagues to conform to the culture of the University in order to receive tenure, and the conflicts that this can create for Indigenous academics in their communities.