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Although previous studies focused on bullying in general, the intersectionality of various types of bullying has not been extensively examined yet in postsecondary education.  \nThe purpose of this narrative inquiry was to understand how racist homophobic bullying influenced gay male faculty of color in higher education in the United States. This article focuses on two themes, relational marginalization and positional stigmatization, and concludes with discussionsand implications for practicing anti-bullyism to protect sexual minorities of  \ncolor in higher education.  \nIn recent years, national news media in the United States have reported on numerous tragic and critical incidents of bullying, violence, and incivility in the workplace, and headlines have increasingly covered similar incidents in publicly funded K–12 schools and in postsecondary education (Tyler Clementi Foundation, 2014; Winburn, Winburn, & Niemeyer, 2014) . These types of incidents are not new. Society has long witnessed and dealt with such violence (Leymann, 1996; Misawa, 2010a, 2010b, 2015a; Randall, 2001; Twale & De Luca, 2008; Westhues, 2004) .  \nThe study of bullying began in the 1970s with a focus on grade school bullying (Olweus, 1993, 2010) . In the 1980s, the focus on bullying broadened out to include young  \nadulthood and adulthood (Leymann, 1990; Misawa & Rowland, 2015; Namie, 2003; Randall, 1997, 2001). The term workplace bullying surfaced through the work of Andrea Adams (1992) to describe various cases of bullying at workplaces in the United Kingdom. Since this introduction, bullying in adulthood has been expanded to include a number of disciplines, including higher education (Einarsen, Hoel, Zapf, & Cooper, 2011; Keashly & Nueman, 2010; Misawa, 2010b, 2013, 2015a; Twale & De Luca, 2008). Bullying that targets adults is largely based on their various sociocultural identities such as race (e.g., Fox & Stallworth, 2005; Lewis & Gunn, 2007), gender (e.g., Jennifer, 2014; Simpson & Cohen, 2004; Williams, 2013), and sexual orientation (e.g., Poteat, Mereish, DiGiovanni, & Scheer, 2013; Rivers, 2011). While this work shows great promise, the “silo” approach, where identity markers (gender, race, or sexual orientation) are viewed in isolation from one another, can be self-limiting and not reflective of everyone being bullied. Workplace bullying in the context of higher education and through the lens of intersectionality represents an under-researched area in social science literature (Keashly & Nueman, 2010; Misawa, 2010b, 2015a; Twale & De Luca, 2008) .  \nHigher education attaches great importance to diversity and social justice in an attempt to produce inclusive and democratic learning environments. In order for higher education to create such environments, it is crucial to understand the experiences of those who encounter multiple forms of oppression because of their sociocultural variance (Kumashiro, 2001) . This understanding will provide insights into how various forms of marginalization, like identity, intersects between structural and social forms of oppression, and while “silo” approaches to social emancipation can be helpful, human lives are never so neatly contained into such identitycategories. Because such complexity exists in contemporary society, studies on social justice based on the intersectionality of identity categories become pivotal to create an equitable and  \ndemocratic environment and are needed. The purpose of this study was to fill the need by exploring the academic journeys of gay male faculty of color in higher education. The overarching research question was, In what ways does academic bullying affect gay male faculty of color i","cbCaivM0f41wah29","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivM0f41wah29","pdf",292964,"English","# Introduction\n## Purpose and research question\n## Bullying in adulthood and higher education context\n## Intersectionality and social justice framework\n## Brief overview of bullying","[{\"question\":\"What is the main purpose of the study?\",\"answer\":\"To understand how racist homophobic bullying influenced gay male faculty of color in U.S. higher education, focusing on relational marginalization and positional stigmatization.\"},{\"question\":\"What research question guides the narrative inquiry?\",\"answer\":\"In what ways does academic bullying affect gay male faculty of color in higher education?\"},{\"question\":\"What theory and analysis approach does the study use?\",\"answer\":\"It uses queer critical (queer crit) theory and a constructionist positionalogical analysis to examine how race and sexual orientation intersect in participants’ narratives.\"}]","THE COLOR OF THE RAINBOW PATH - AN EXAMINATION OF THE INTERSECTION OF RACIST AND HOMOPHOBIC BULLYING IN U.S. HIGHER EDUCATION | PDF",1792083431]