Academic Outsider Quotes

“Not that saying no even works: the very people who tell you to say no to service requests will urge you to reconsider, despite your initial no. That’s because departments, universities, and the academy more generally often rely on what Adia Harvey Wingfield calls racial outsourcing, or what happens “when organizations fail to do the work of transforming their culture, norms and workforces to reach communities of color and instead rely on Black professionals for this labor.”42 Since organizations, like universities and departments, rely on Black faculty and faculty of color to do the bulk of diversity work, we are asked again and again to serve, even after saying no.”
― Victoria Reyes, Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope

“As Anthony Abraham Jack notes in his study of low-income undergraduates at an elite college, “access is not inclusion.”20”
― Victoria Reyes, Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope

“BFS enacts Black author Toni Morrison’s call to action, that “the function of freedom is to free somebody else.”13”
― Victoria Reyes, Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope