Introduction / Roland W. Mitchell, Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Katrice A. Albert, and Chaunda M. Allen -- A testimony of a black male cadet facing racial battle fatigue / Melvin (Jai) Jackson -- Navigating the academy, creating counterspaces : critically examining the experiences of three PhD students of color / Laura S. Yee, Roderick L. Carey, and Wyletta S. Gamble -- What are you anyway? : racial fatigue as a daily experience in public schools / Boni Wozolek -- The ubiquitous white shadow : a counternarrtive of a doctoral student in a "liberal" teacher education program / Roberto Montoya -- Traumatic pedagogy : when epistemic privilege and white privilege collide / Tapo Chimbganda -- Black. woman. non-traditional other : creating hybrid spaces in higher education / Tammie Jenkins -- Indigenous peoples in the racial battle lands / Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy -- "I ain't your doc student " : the overwhelming presence of whiteness and pain at the academic neo plantation / Cheryl E. Matias -- Assault in the academy : when it becomes more than racial battle fatigue / Cleveland Hayes -- Psychological heuristics : mental/emotional designs of racial battle fatigue and the tenure/promotion terrain for faculty of color / Noelle Witherspoon Arnold -- Examining intra-group racism and racial battle fatigue in historically black colleges and universities / Leslie V. Collins -- Narratives from the allied front : can people not of color have racial battle fatigue? / Walter S. Gershon and Robert J. Helfenbein -- Wearing you down : the influence of racial battle fatigue on academic freedom for faculty of color / Holley Locher & Rebecca Ropers-Huilman -- An adopted Korean speaks out about his racialized experiences as a faculty member at a PWI / Nicholas D. Hartlep -- Racial battle fatigue and/as impostorship : implications for academic mentoring and psychosocial development / T. Elon Dancy III -- "We didn't know you meant that by diversity" : contested diversity and strategic (administrative) responses in colleges of education / Francisco Rios and Karen B. McLean Dade -- Standing on my head spitting (Indian head) nickels : racial battle fatigue as it relates to Native Americans in predominately white institutions of higher education / Deirdre A. Almeida -- Behind enemy lines : critical race theory, racial battle fatigue and higher education / Mark S. Giles -- A hyphenated life : power and liberation within the research academy / David M. Callejo Perez -- Exploiting the body and denouncing the mind : navigating a black female professional identity within the academy / Kristie A. Ford -- Exercising agency in the midst of racial battle fatigue : a case for intragroup diversity / Gregory J. Vincent, Sherri L. Sanders, and Stella L. Smith -- Racial (and gender) battle fatigue : the transdisciplinary applied social justice approach / Menah A.E. Pratt-Clarke -- Clashing with tradition : the chief diversity officer at white public institutions / Charles Robinson