ABSTRACT
Scholarship focused on the unique needs of Biracial, Black-identifying women is limited, with few ethnographic renderings or conceptual frameworks. To understand the integrated nature of a Biracial gifted Black woman, the author provides narratives of her lived experiences in predominantly white settings. This chapter focuses on my experience of being a Biracial woman navigating the doctoral process in a community with other Black women, a sense of group membership, as well as the experience of identifying as Black, while familial support was primarily white. The author shares her understanding of Biracial identity development, the power of collectives, and ways to nuance familial and doctoral program contention.
