Resisting Mammy Professorhood during COVID-19
7 min readMay 15, 2020
Why Black women in academia are not your mammies, even during a global pandemic.
I am an American rarity — I truly love my job.
My role as a professor gives me the privilege of waking up most mornings feeling eager to arrive on campus and enter the classroom because it brings out an element within me that no other environment can.