TY - JOUR
T1 - Who Climbs the Academic Ladder? Race and Gender Stratification in a World of Whiteness
AU - Moore, Kyle K.
AU - Cid-Martinez, Ismael
AU - Toney, Jermaine
AU - Smith, Jason A.
AU - Kalb, Amber C.
AU - Shin, Jean H.
AU - Spalter-Roth, Roberta M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful for the helpful comments of both sociologists and economists who reviewed the paper through multiple rewrites. These include William (Sandy) Darity, Duke University; Darrick Hamilton, New School for Social Research; Marie Mora, University of Texas–Rio Grande Valley; Kris Marsh, University of Maryland; Cheryl Leggon, Georgia Institute of Technology; Willie Pearson Jr., George Institute of Technology; and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University. They also thank Elizangela Storelli, Joshua D. Tuttle, and Tyler W. Myroniuk, George Mason University, for their statistical help. They are especially grateful to the Sociology Program, under the then-direction of Patricia E. White, as well as the Science of Broadening Participation initiative at the National Science Foundation. Additional thanks to Rhonda Sharpe and Margaret Sims, the co-editors of the journal, and the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Funding Information:
The authors are grateful for the helpful comments of both sociologists and economists who reviewed the paper through multiple rewrites. These include William (Sandy) Darity, Duke University; Darrick Hamilton, New School for Social Research; Marie Mora, University of Texas–Rio Grande Valley; Kris Marsh, University of Maryland; Cheryl Leggon, Georgia Institute of Technology; Willie Pearson Jr., George Institute of Technology; and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University. They also thank Elizangela Storelli, Joshua D. Tuttle, and Tyler W. Myroniuk, George Mason University, for their statistical help. They are especially grateful to the Sociology Program, under the then-direction of Patricia E. White, as well as the Science of Broadening Participation initiative at the National Science Foundation. Additional thanks to Rhonda Sharpe and Margaret Sims, the co-editors of the journal, and the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2018/9/1
Y1 - 2018/9/1
N2 - Under-represented minority (URM) faculty can expand the range of perspectives taught to students, but only if they are hired, granted tenure, and promoted. Their career paths can be constrained due to a stratification process that appears to legitimate a non-Hispanic White male set of rules and practices, including value neutrality and objectivity. This article measures specific aspects of human and social capital and their relationship to academic stratification in two social science disciplines, economics and sociology. Here, we measure stratification by the distribution of academic rank and examine differences based on discipline, institution type, race/ethnicity, gender, and publications in terms of academic career success. Our data are unique because they are gathered from multiple secondary sources. One contribution of this article is to measure social capital as a “two worlds” phenomenon, taken from W. E. B. Du Bois. Not surprisingly, we find that “publish or perish” still rules. Conversely, URM-oriented social capital, which can provide a safe space and opportunities to collaborate on scholarly work, is not significant. But, it may be related to feelings of satisfaction and inclusion. The only exceptions are URM-oriented sections in sociology. The article concludes with a series of policy recommendations to support URM faculty members in their careers.
AB - Under-represented minority (URM) faculty can expand the range of perspectives taught to students, but only if they are hired, granted tenure, and promoted. Their career paths can be constrained due to a stratification process that appears to legitimate a non-Hispanic White male set of rules and practices, including value neutrality and objectivity. This article measures specific aspects of human and social capital and their relationship to academic stratification in two social science disciplines, economics and sociology. Here, we measure stratification by the distribution of academic rank and examine differences based on discipline, institution type, race/ethnicity, gender, and publications in terms of academic career success. Our data are unique because they are gathered from multiple secondary sources. One contribution of this article is to measure social capital as a “two worlds” phenomenon, taken from W. E. B. Du Bois. Not surprisingly, we find that “publish or perish” still rules. Conversely, URM-oriented social capital, which can provide a safe space and opportunities to collaborate on scholarly work, is not significant. But, it may be related to feelings of satisfaction and inclusion. The only exceptions are URM-oriented sections in sociology. The article concludes with a series of policy recommendations to support URM faculty members in their careers.
KW - faculty
KW - human capital
KW - social capital
KW - stratification
KW - under-represented minorities
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U2 - 10.1177/0034644618813667
DO - 10.1177/0034644618813667
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85059060559
SN - 0034-6446
VL - 45
SP - 216
EP - 244
JO - Review of Black Political Economy
JF - Review of Black Political Economy
IS - 3
ER -