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Even academically talented students face challenges in college. For high-achieving Black women, their racial, gender, and academic identities intensify those issues.
Black and Smart reveals the ways institutional oppression functions at historically white institutions on and off campus. It also features strategies for educators to create more affirming and inclusive environments inside and outside the college classroom.
List of contents
1. Students Like Jada: Invisible High-Achieving Black Women
2. Beyond Black and Smart
3. Learning While Black and Brilliant
4. Thriving and Threats in Campus Life
5. Performing Authentic Identities
6. Implications for Practice and Conclusion
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
ADRIANNE MUSU DAVIS is an educational consultant and the administrative dean/director of the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Summary
Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework, Davis addresses the significance of the various identities of high-achieving Black women in college individually and collectively, revealing the ways institutional oppression functions at historically white institutions and in social interactions on and off campus.
