"It's embedded in its history and a lay of its culture": antiblackness at institutions of higher learning

Pervasive antiblackness diminishes the collective communicative power of racialized scholars oriented toward social transformation in higher education and research. In this paper, I examine the incomprehensible social life of pervasive antiblackness at one higher learning research institute. Participant narratives suggest pervasive antiblackness dishonors, devalues, and dehumanizes Black bodies, knowers, knowledge production, and ways of knowing. These barriers are not attacks on individual students or knowledge producers – these barriers are part of the broader everyday violences against Black community and any scholars honoring Black life by examining racialized (and gendered) inequality. They also recognize it as a site for social transformation.