Chapter 1. Microaggressions: an introduction -- Chapter 2. Architects of change in the ivory tower: recasting the role of black women engaged in higher education professional counterspaces -- Chapter 3. From PWI to HBCU: when the oppressed takes on the characteristics of the oppressor -- Chapter 4. Owning black hair: the pursuit of identity and authenticity in higher education -- Chapter 5. Critical examination of tokenism and demands of organizational citizenship behavior among faculty women of color -- Chapter 6. Claws and all: women of color and the pitfalls of dominant culture leadership -- Chapter 7. Undermining leadership effectiveness -- Chapter 8. The black one: microaggressions in a criminal justice program -- Chapter 9. What's respect got to do with it?: a black woman's experience with the role of respect in academia -- Chapter 10. Praxis of the teaching profession: a dialectic of institutional oppression and the development of pedagogy and critical consciousness -- Chapter 11. Molding me in their image -- Chapter 12. Analyzing university exploitation of diversity to legitimize hiring discrimination: a black woman professor's narrative.