Full Description
Black women earn 67% of all doctorates earned by Blacks in the United States, yet their presence in higher education as tenured professors remains dismally low. This drastic gap between educational attainment and employment can largely be traced to the structural constraints of both racism and sexism and continues to create obstacles for talented Black women scholars and researchers.
In Disrupt the "Not-Telling", Leah P. Hollis, Tara B. Blackshear, and Raquel Muñiz have gathered an expert group of Black scholars to examine why Black women have been excluded from tenured roles in higher education institutions. Broken into two sections, the first focuses on empirical research and narratives from Black women in predominantly white institutions, detailing their tenure and promotion experiences. The second unit sheds light on the challenges faced within Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). Employing a range of theoretical approaches, case studies, and phenomenological approaches, the book analyzes higher education processes and their inequitable impact on Black women.
Beyond highlighting the problem, this volume offers theoretically sound approaches and recommends solutions that can assist colleges and universities in creating and maintaining an equitable path to tenure.
Contents
Unit 1. Scholarship as Resistance: Black Women's Empirical and Narrative Perspectives from Predominantly White Institutions
1: Josclynn Brandon and Allison BrckaLorenz: Retaining Black Women Faculty: Cultivating an Equitable Teaching Environment
2: Leah P. Hollis: Walking in Acid Rain: Black Women Faculty, Microaggressions, and Coping Strategies in the Third Space
3: Eve Famutimi and Tara B. Blackshear: The "Burden of Service" as a Barrier to Earning Tenure for Black Women: Policy Implementation for Transformative Change
4: LaWanda W.M. Ward, Raya D. Petty, and Lori D. Patton: Black Women Academics and Title VII Lawsuits: Academic Bullying as a Form of Gendered Race Discrimination
5: Gina E. Miranda Samuels: Learning to Dance in the Rain: Surthrival in Academia While Black and Female
6: Azizi Arrington-Slocum and Daisy-O'lice Williams: Carving Space: Two Stories of Tenure in the Architectural Academy
7: Valandra: If the Sisterhood Turns Sour: The Tenure Process of a Black Woman at a Predominantly White Institution
Unit 2. Misogynoir at Home: Black Women's Narratives and Solutions at Minority Serving Institutions and Predominately White Institutions
8: Tara B. Blackshear: The First and Only is Lonely: Trailblazing in Hazardous Conditions
9: Leah P. Hollis: Queen Bees in an Apathetic Ecosystem of Higher Education Incivility
10: Wendasha Jenkins Hall: Nah, Get Somebody Else To Do It: Autoethnography on Resistance to the Superwoman Syndrome During the Pre-tenure Years
11: Ernestine A. W. Duncan and Khadijah O. Miller: Sister Circles as a Resistance and Resilience Tool in the Tenure and Promotion Process
12: Brenda Muzeta and Leta Hooper: "You Don't Get to Decide My Fate": Narratives of Two Black Women Faculty in Academia
13: Felesia Stukes and Rosalyn Lang: Resistance & Resilience: Systemic Gatekeeping in the Tenure Process for Black Women at Predominantly White Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Minority Serving Institutions: Black Does Crack
14: Okianer Christian Dark and Rhea Ballard-Thrower: It's Complicated. Or Is It? Strategies for a Perplexing Problem
