Faculty of color entering the academy describe factors leading toward their incorporation as well as factors keeping them at the margins. Relying on educational research, the concepts of incorporation and marginalization are discussed in this article. There are positive and negative aspects to incorporation and marginalization, which are very often overlooked.
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