Abstract

In this chapter I explore my lived experiences as a first generation immigrant woman of color in academia and the implications of these experiences in my life as an academic. I will frame my chapter using standpoint theory. I will touch on issues of developing my identity as a person and as a professional in the boundaries that the society has drawn for me, as well as the stereotypes that I have to overcome. At the end, I will borrow from Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach to give some suggestion as how we can face these challenges and what the universities can do to create a more welcoming (inclusive) place for us, and what we, as professors can do, in order to address the social injustices the manifest themselves in and out of the classroom.