Black Female Perspectives from Predominantly White Institutions

Black Female Perspectives from Predominantly White Institutions
Author: Karen McLean Dade
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2023-07-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1666944947

Black Female Perspectives from Predominantly White Institutions: Strategies for Wellbeing in White Spaces and Beyond supports Black women working in predominantly White spaces and further educates their institutions, non-Black counterparts, students, and families in developing an understanding of the challenges and needs of Black women professionals. In the face of world challenges, the authors contend that anti-Blackness continues to be an infectious pandemic that is devastating Black lives around the globe. Black women professionals, who are often at the forefront of racial and gender justice movements at their institutions, have been especially burdened. Such devotion is daunting and often drains the wellbeing of Black women. Institutions frequently ignore the cry of racial battle fatigue that Black employees, and members of communities of color, are experiencing on a large scale. This has become a serious health risk for many Black people, particularly Black women professionals. The authors assert that it is important to use “for us by us” concepts when addressing racial battle fatigue. Therefore, this book is framed using several African descent-centered knowledge systems. It offers strategies to enhance the wellbeing of Black women, such as ancestral wisdom, addressing anti-Blackness, identities and female life cycles, and planting seeds grounded in love. Although the book focuses on Black women, it is encouraged reading for all. It is believed that greater awareness will spark greater change within our society.

Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success

Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success
Author: Lori D. Patton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Academic achievement
ISBN: 9781138819474

Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success presents theoretically grounded scholarship and research that explores the experiences of black undergraduate women in college from a wide range of perspectives.

Too Much to Ask

Too Much to Ask
Author: Elizabeth Higginbotham
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2003-01-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807875279

In the 1960s, increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly White colleges and universities in the northern and western United States. Too Much to Ask focuses on the women of this pioneering generation, examining their educational strategies and experiences and exploring how social class, family upbringing, and expectations--their own and others'--prepared them to achieve in an often hostile setting. Drawing on extensive questionnaires and in-depth interviews with Black women graduates, sociologist Elizabeth Higginbotham sketches the patterns that connected and divided the women who integrated American higher education before the era of affirmative action. Although they shared educational goals, for example, family resources to help achieve those goals varied widely according to their social class. Across class lines, however, both the middle- and working-class women Higginbotham studied noted the importance of personal initiative and perseverance in helping them to combat the institutionalized racism of elite institutions and to succeed. Highlighting the actions Black women took to secure their own futures as well as the challenges they faced in achieving their goals, Too Much to Ask provides a new perspective for understanding the complexity of racial interactions in the post-civil rights era.

Creating Campus Cultures

Creating Campus Cultures
Author: Samuel D. Museus
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2012-03-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136836160

Creating Campus Cultures is the first book to explicitly focus on how campus cultures shape the experiences of racially diverse student populations.

Black Feminist Thought

Black Feminist Thought
Author: Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2002-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135960135

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.

Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success

Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success
Author: Lori D. Patton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2017-01-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317592077

In this comprehensive volume, research-based chapters examine the experiences that have shaped college life for Black undergraduate women, and invite readers to grapple with the current myths and definitions that are shaping the discourses surrounding them. Chapter authors ask valuable questions that are critical for advancing the participation and success of Black women in higher education settings and also provide actionable recommendations to enhance their educational success. Perspectives about Black undergraduate women from various facets of the higher education spectrum are included, sharing their experiences in academic and social settings, issues of identity, intersectionality, and the services and support systems that contribute to their success in college, and beyond. Presenting comprehensive, theoretically grounded, and thought-provoking scholarship, Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success is a definitive resource for scholarship and research on Black undergraduate women.

Black Girl, White School

Black Girl, White School
Author: Olivia Clarke
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-08-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9780989776943

Stories are powerful. They have the ability to provide comfort and solace. Growing up in a predominantly white institution (PWI) as a young black girl provides amazing opportunities as well as challenging experiences. The poems, anecdotes, and entries found between the pages of this book seek to provide support and guidance for black girls in PWI's by black girls and women who either attend a PWI now or have in the past. They also offer insight into a student's experience for institutions, administrators and faculty to learn from. No matter if you are looking for friendship, information, or a vent space take a look inside and find so much more. Check out the matching journal for a writing space of your own!

Black Women Navigating Historically White Higher Education Institutions and the Journey Toward Liberation

Black Women Navigating Historically White Higher Education Institutions and the Journey Toward Liberation
Author: Logan, Stephanie R.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2022-05-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1668446278

Black women in higher education continue to experience colder institutional climates that devalue their presence. They are relied on to mentor students and expected to commit to service activities that are not rewarded in the tenure process and often lack access to knowledgeable mentors to offer career support. There is a need to move beyond the individual resistance strategies employed by Black women to institutional and policy changes in higher education institutions. Specifically, higher education policymakers and administrators should understand and acknowledge how the race and gender makeup of campuses and departments impact the successes and failures of Black women as they work to recruit and retain Black women graduate students, faculty, and administrators. Black Women Navigating Historically White Higher Education Institutions and the Journey Toward Liberation provides a collection of ethnographies, case studies, narratives, counter-stories, and quantitative descriptions of Black women's intersectional experience learning, teaching, serving, and leading in higher education. This publication also provides an opportunity for Black women to identify the systems that impede their professional growth and development in higher education institutions and articulate how they navigate racist and sexist forces to find their versions of success. Covering a range of topics such as leadership, mental health, and identity, this reference work is ideal for higher education professionals, policymakers, administrators, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.

The Unchosen Me

The Unchosen Me
Author: Rachelle Winkle-Wagner
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1421402939

Racial and gender inequities persist among college students, despite ongoing efforts to combat them. Students of color face alienation, stereotyping, low expectations, and lingering racism even as they actively engage in the academic and social worlds of college life. The Unchosen Me examines the experiences of African American collegiate women and the identity-related pressures they encounter both on and off campus. Rachelle Winkle-Wagner finds that the predominantly white college environment often denies African American students the chance to determine their own sense of self. Even the very programs and policies developed to promote racial equality may effectively impose “unchosen” identities on underrepresented students. She offers clear evidence of this interactive process, showing how race, gender, and identity are created through interactions among one’s self, others, and society. At the heart of this book are the voices of women who struggle to define and maintain their identities during college. In a unique series of focus groups called “sister circles,” these women could speak freely and openly about the pressures and tensions they faced in school. The Unchosen Me is a rich examination of the underrepresented student experience, offering a new approach to studying identity, race, and gender in higher education.

Black Colleges Across the Diaspora

Black Colleges Across the Diaspora
Author: M. Christopher Brown II
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2017-12-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1786355221

This book examines colleges and universities across the diaspora with majority African, African-American, and other Black designated student enrolments. It engages the diversity of Black colleges and universities and explains their critical role in promoting academic excellence in higher education.