While there has been an increase of Black women faculty in higher education institutions, the academy writ large continues to exploit, discriminate, and uphold institutionalized gendered racism through its policies and practices. Black women have navigated, negotiated, and learned how to thrive from their respective standpoints and epistemologies, traversing the academy in ways that counter typical narratives of success and advancement. This edited volume bridges together foundational and contemporary intergenerational, interdisciplinary voices to elucidate Black feminist epistemologies and praxis. Chapter authors highlight relevant research, methodologies, and theoretical or conceptual frameworks; share experiences as doctoral students, current faculty, and academic administrators; and offer lessons learned and strategies to influence systemic and institutional change for and with Black women.
Author(s): hrista J. Porter, V. Thandi Sulé, Natasha N. Croom
Series: Diverse Faculty in the Academy
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 250
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Series Editor’s Introduction
Foreword: “Speak Your Names”
1 Applying Black Feminist Epistemologies, Research, and Praxis: An Introduction
SECTION I: Historical Overview: Situating (Counter)Stories in the Academy
2 Twenty Years Later … The Narrative for Black Women in the Academy Remains the Same, or Does It?
3 Reimagining Black Feminist Epistemology and
Praxis: Reflecting on the Contemporary and Evolving
Conceptual Framework of One Black Faculty Woman’s
Academic Life
4 Maids of Academe in Historically White Institutions: Revisited Against the Backdrop of “Black Lives Matter”
5 The Black Woman is God: Cultivating the Power of a Disruptive Presence
SECTION II: Utility of Black Feminist Epistemologies, Research, and Praxis
6 What Black Cyberfeminism Teaches us about Black Women on College Campuses
7 Uprooting the Prevalence of Misogynoir in Counselor Education
8 Intersectionality Methodology and the Black Women Committed to “Write-Us” Resistance
9 Advancing African Dance as a Practice of Freedom
10 Spirit Murder: Black Women’s Realities in the Academy
11 Sista Circles with SistUH Scholars: Socializing Black Women Doctoral Students
SECTION III: Black Feminist Praxis Enacted: Journeying Toward Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion
12 #BlackInTheIvory: Utilizing Twitter to Explore Black Womxn’s Experiences in the Academy
13 Repurposing My Status as an Outsider Within: A Black
Feminist Scholar-Pracademic’s Journey to Becoming an
Invested Indifferent
14 Navigating a Womanist Caring Framework: Centering Womanist Geographies within Social Foundations for Black Academic Survival
15 Black Feminist Thought from Theory to Practice: “This is MY LIFE”
16 How Positionality and Intersectionality Impact Black Women’s Faculty Teaching Narratives: Grounded Histories
SECTION IV: Canary in the Coal Mine: Journeying from Associate to Academic Administrator and Full Professor
17 Supporting Black Womyn Associate Professors to the Full Professorship
18 Black Women in Academic Leadership: Reflections of One Department Chair’s Journey in Engineering
19 In Conversation: Engaging (with) the Narratives of Two Black Women Full Professor Leaders
Enact, Discard, and Transform: Black Women’s Agentic
Epistemology
Afterword
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index
