Recent Vassar grad here. I witnessed both Kiese and Eve on a panel about racial profiling after the library incident. What we saw from the white administrators (aside from perhaps "you're overreacting") wasn't a denial of the existence of racial profiling; it was something far more insidious. It was, "Racial profiling…

if teens came and caused a ruckus at my library I'd tell them to go away. I think "you're not allowed to be here, leave" would be a better response to people without ID (if ID is required) than calling the police.

"For me, the tension between present and future priorities made itself most apparent when campus security called the local police to campus to detain and question a group of black male teenagers without identification. The kids were reported to have been horsing around in the campus library on a Sunday…

The biggest obstacle to dealing with race are the sharp differences in perception between black people and white people to the exact same events. What a white candidate may view as a grueling, treacherous tenure process, a black candidate might view as racist "institutional hazing." What a white onlooker sees as…

"I left my position because the kind of institutional leader I have to be is one critical of white supremacy and her own complicity within it. As a black woman and a scholar of black literature, history and culture, I grow less convinced, however, that this position is compatible with many American institutions—small…

I won't speak to the effects that the racial insensitivity had on Dr. Dunbar because I can't even begin to imagine it, but in terms of doing extra work and not receiving extra compensation, that's fairly commonplace in Academia and Business no matter your race or gender. Many companies will look at your extra work…