ABSTRACT
This chapter will examines such issues and explore how the situation can be improved for black women and their position validated. Some areas that need to be discussed regarding the experiences of black women in higher education include: black women's exclusion from higher education, the influence of stereotypes, academic research, language and power. Such explanations are unsatisfactory, because they oversimplify cultural influence and thus reinforce the social construction of black people as deviant from the norms of white British behaviour. Despite the political and theoretical diversity of feminism, feminists have a common recognition of themselves as a social category separating them from and placing them in opposition to others. Black women bring to feminism lived realities of racism that have marginalized them. Black women's experiences have to be recognized as valid, as women who have something to contribute to academia, rather than women who are just interested in academia.
