Contents: Sandra Jackson/Richard Greggory Johnson III: Introduction - Bryant Keith Alexander: Bordered and Bleeding Identities: An Autocritography of Shifting Academic Life - Judy A. Alston: An Ethic of Responsibility: A Black Lesbian Scholar Ponders the Intersection of Racism and Heterosexism in Educational Leadership - Christopher Anne Easley: Developing My Higher Self: My Life as an African American Woman in the Academy - Denise E. Strong/Tammie M. Causey-Konaté/Brenda Burrell: Black Women in the Professoriat: Enlightened, Emancipated and Empowered - Lemuel Watson: No Apologies for Being Myself - Linda Tillman: Sometimes I've Felt Like a Motherless Child: Being Black and Female in the Academy - Charmaine A. Nelson: Toppling the «Great White North»: Tales of a Black Female Professor in the Canadian Academy - Richard Greggory Johnson III: Jumping The Broom: The Incompatible Marriage of Higher Education Leadership and Faculty Life - Sandra Jackson: Taking Nothing for Granted: Ruminations of a Black Woman Professor - Frank C. Worrell: From Graduate Student to Full Professor: Navigating the Waters of Two Research One Institutions - Moustapha Diouf: Navigating Through the Complex Web of Identity Politics: Confronting Race in Academia - Marvin Lynn: «Exorcizing Critical Pedagogy» Again: Reflections on Being an Angry Black Man in the Academy - Antonio D. Tillis: Notes of a Black Male Academic Border Crosser: Globalization and the Black Male Body - Marsha J. Tyson Darling: «The Personal Is Always Political»: Reflections on Creating Habitable Space in Academia.