Full Description
In The Majestic Place: The Freedom Possible in Black Women's Leadership, editors Wendi S. Williams, Whitneé L. Garrett-Walker, and Nia Spooner curate the leadership narratives of Black women leaders from a range contexts, including education, health, and non-profit industries, in which they serve some of the most vulnerable and chronically disserved. Focused on the stages of women's intra-personal and spiritual development, this book aims to create an expansive vision of Black women's leadership grounded in lived experience. Contributors to this book are Black women scholar-practitioners who lead in higher stakes context of serving and cultivating people and change. Each was invited to express their leadership experience(s) in essay, poetry, and/or prose form to offer a lens into the interiority of Black women's leadership praxis that is not always welcomed or heard.
Contents
Introduction: You Are Welcome by Wendi Williams, Whitneé Garrett-Walker, and Nia Spooner
Part I: Mother's Milk by Whitneé Garrett-Walker
Chapter 1: I Never Wanted to be a Midwife: Stories of Birth by Kaiayo Z. Shatteen
Chapter 2: Dando LECHE: Conceptualizing Black-centered Leadership as Mothering Through the Testimonios of Two AfroLatinx Higher Education Professionals by Krista L. Cortes and Roseilyn Guzman
Chapter 3: Beyond the Veil: The Black Girl I Could Be by DeLisha Tapscott
Chapter 4: Refueling: Black Women Leaders Manifesting African Warrior Queenship by Norka Blackman-Richards
Part II: A Woman Will Manifest by Whitneé Garrett-Walker
Chapter 5: Life, Love, and Leadership by Rachelle Rogers-Ard
Chapter 6: The Audacity, Politics, and Pragmatism of Black Women's Leadership by Andrea E. Evans
Chapter 7: This Too Shall Pass, or Will It? by Roxane L. Gervais and Yetunde Ade-Serrano
Part III: A More Radical Elsewhere by Whitneé Garrett-Walker
Chapter 8: Keisha vs. Karen: We Ain't Doing This No More! by Reneé Heywood and Rhema Heywood
Chapter 9: Conclusion by Whitneé Garrett-Walker
References
Index
About the Contributors
