ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to explore the ways spirit murder has manifested in Black women’s realities as they pursue graduate education and entry into the professoriate. The author reviews several conceptualizations of spirit murder and how gendered racism impacts Black women’s health and trajectories into and through the academy. The author offers spirituality, as articulated through Dillard’s Endarkened Feminist Epistemology, as a means to deepen our ability to push for abolition in educational contexts.
