In this important new volume, scholars from a variety of backgrounds describe and analyze their experiences in higher education and the way in which structural barriers, institutional racism and interpersonal bias limit their ability to fully contribute to the academic enterprise. Their stories remind us that despite some advances, tremendous obstacles to fairness and racial equity remain and must be contested if we are to truly decolonize higher education.

Pedro Noguera, Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the Rossier School of Education and a Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Southern California, USA

The Invisible Toll provides an important space where the voices of minoritized faculty in higher education are made powerfully present. It presents us with a very honest account of the continuing struggles to challenge the realities they so often face.

Michael W. Apple, Professor Emeritus University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

The Invisible Toll is a solid testimony of what academics of color experience in the ivory (not ivory and ebony) towers. Despite presenting themselves as bastions of diversity, inclusiveness, and intellectualism, higher education institutions inadvertently (or advertently) recycle the very racism and sexism they claim to abhor. Thusly, choosing to overlook or ignore these testimonies ultimately maintains the racist and sexist status quo of academia. Notwithstanding this Dr. Pierre Orelus so poignantly reveals the hate inside academia, especially to a committed faculty who ceaselessly generate and express love to their students, research, and society...

Cheryl E. Matias, Full Professor (Motherscholar), University of San Diego, USA