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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.
List of contents
Series Editor's Introduction
Frank A. Bonner II
Foreword: "Speak Your Names"
Venus E. Evans-Winters
- Applying Black Feminist Epistemologies, Research, and Praxis: An Introduction
Christa J. Porter, V. Thandi Sulé, and Natasha N. Croom
SECTION I
Historical overview: Situating (Counter)Stories in the Academy
- Twenty Years Later ... The Narrative for Black Women Remains the Same, or Does It?
Reitumetse O. Mabokela and Yeukai A. Mlambo
- Reimagining Black Feminist Epistemology and Praxis: Reflecting on the Contemporary and Evolving Conceptual Framework of One Black Faculty Woman's Academic Life
Sheila T. Gregory
- Maids of Academe in Historically White Institutions: Revisited Against the Backdrop of 'Black Lives Matter'
Debra A. Harley
- The Black Woman is God: Cultivating the Power of a Disruptive Presence
Emerald Templeton
SECTION II
Utility of Black Feminist Epistemologies, Research, and Praxis
- What Black Cyberfeminism Teaches Us About Black Women on College Campuses
Shawna Patterson-Stephens and Nadrea R. Njoku
- Uprooting the Prevalence of Misogynoir in Counselor Education
Olivia T. Ngadjui
- Intersectionality Methodology and the Black Women Committed to 'Write-Us' Resistance
Chayla Haynes, Saran Stewart, Evette L. Allen Moore, Nicole M. Joseph, and Lori D. Patton
- Advancing African Dance as a Practice of Freedom
Shani Collins and Truth Hunter
- Spirit Murder: Black Women's Realities in the Academy
Ebony J. Aya
- Sista Circles with SistUH Scholars: Socializing Black Women Doctoral Students
Tiffany J. Davis and April L. Peters
SECTION III
Black Feminist Praxis Enacted: Journeying Toward Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion
- #BlackInTheIvory: Utilizing Twitter to Explore Black Womxn's Experiences in the Academy
Christina Wright Fields and Katrina M. Overby
- Repurposing My Status as an Outsider Within: A Black Feminist Scholar-Pracademic's Journey to Becoming an Invested Indifferent
Nicole M. West
- Navigating a Womanist Caring Framework: Centering Womanist Geographies within Social Foundations for Black Academic Survival
Taryrn T. C. Brown and E. Nichole Murray
- Black Feminist Thought from Theory to Praxis: "This is MY LIFE"
Tiffany L. Steele
- How Positionality and Intersectionality Impact Black Women's Faculty Teaching Narratives: Grounded Histories
Rhonda C. Hylton
SECTION IV
Canary in the Coal Mine: Journeying from Associate to Academic Administrator and Full Professor
- Supporting Black Womyn Associate Professors to the Full Professorship
Stacey D. Garrett and Natasha N. Croom
- Black Women in Academic Leadership: Reflections of One Department Chair's Journey in Engineering
Meseret F. Hailu and Monica F. Cox
- In Conversation: Engaging (with) the Narratives of Two Black Women Full Professor Leaders
Christa J. Porter, V. Thandi Sulé, and Natasha N. Croom
Enact, Discard, and Transform: Black Women's Agentic Epistemology
V. Thandi Sulé
Afterword
Christa J. Porter, V. Thandi Sulé, and Natasha N. Croom
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Summary
This edited volume bridges together foundational and contemporary intergenerational, interdisciplinary voices to elucidate Black feminist epistemologies and praxis.
Report
In [this book] you will see/feel/hear Black women scholars (as educators, mentors, advocates, sisters, daughters, and mothers) take up space, and concomitantly, refuse space....Throughout this text [Black women academicians] boldly engage in narrative inquiry, storytelling, poetry, and prose as cultural productions that serve to speak against dominant narratives that attempt to render Black women intellectual activists invisible and erase [them] from the historical record.
--From the Foreword by Venus E. Evans-Winters, former Professor of Education at Illinois State University, USA, founder of Planet Venus, and creator of the Write Like A Scholar program.
