Academic storytelling: A critical race theory story of affirmative action

The minority (nonwhite) can tell stories about institutional practices in a cademia that result in unintended benefits fur the majority (white). One in stitutional practice in academia is affirmative action. This article presen ts a story about a minority applicant or a sociology position and his refer ral to an affirmative action program for recruiting minority faculty. One r eason for telling the story is to illustrate how an affirmative action prog ram can be implemented in a manner that marginalizes minority persons in th e faculty recruitment process and results in benefits for majority persons. Another reason fur telling the story is to sound an alarm for majority and minority faculty who support affirmative action programs that the programs can fall short of their goals if their implementation is simply treated us a bureaucratic activity in academia.