Majestic Place - The Freedom Possible in Black Women''s Leadership

With engaging, inviting prose from a variety of writers, The Majestic Place offers insight into a conversation and perspective of Black women leaders' interiority that is not often welcomed or heard.

List of 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

About the author

Edited by Wendi S. Williams and Whitnee Garrett-Walker - Associate editor Nia Spooner

Product details

• Authors: Wendi Garrett-Walker Williams, Wendi S Garrett-Walker Williams, Wendi S. Garrett-Walker Williams
• Assisted by: Whitnee Garrett-Walker (Editor), Whitneé Garrett-Walker (Editor), Wendi Williams (Editor), Wendi S Williams (Editor), Wendi S. Williams (Editor), Nia Spooner (Co-editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2025
• EAN: 9781538198599
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-9859-9
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Social & cultural history, EDUCATION / Leadership, PSYCHOLOGY / Interpersonal Relations, Sociology: family & relationships, Social, group or collective psychology, Communication Studies, Educational strategies & policy, Relating to African American people, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women & girls, Black & Asian Studies, Multicultural education, Interpersonal communication & skills