Racial Caste and Black Bodies in Higher Education Informing Antiracism Practices

Given the embeddedness of anti-black racism within the United States, higher education institutions are complicit in its pervasiveness. Facing underrepresentation and lack of belongingness among Black faculty, higher education leaders should consider the implementation of human resource development (HRD) practices as an antiracism strategy. As such, this chapter details how higher education institutions functioned to undermine the humanity of Black people and how Black faculty agentic practices both contributed to higher education and thwarted attempts to undermine Black people’s humanity. Crucially, the chapter explores how an HRD framework can challenge anti-black racism at historically white colleges.