ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|44 pages
Historical Overview
chapter 3|11 pages
Reimagining Black Feminist Epistemology and Praxis
chapter 4|13 pages
Maids of Academe in Historically White Institutions
part Section II|48 pages
Utility of Black Feminist Epistemologies, Research, and Praxis
part Section III|58 pages
Black Feminist Praxis Enacted
chapter 12|8 pages
#BlackInTheIvory
chapter 13|17 pages
Repurposing My Status as an Outsider Within
chapter 14|11 pages
Navigating a Womanist Caring Framework
chapter 16|14 pages
How Positionality and Intersectionality Impact Black Women's Faculty Teaching Narratives
part Section IV|36 pages
Canary in the Coal Mine