ABSTRACT
The invisibility of Afro-Caribbean women is not just a statistical phenomenon but a lived experience within higher education in the United States. Facing a triple invisibility of being Black, women, and foreign, this chapter describes how the authors mek yaad in academia by mentoring each other in their integration of Caribbeanness as a form of Blackness into their academic lives. To support Afro-Caribbean women persistence through graduate school, institutions can provide supplemental funding to support international research and ensure that representations of Blackness in the curriculum include Afro-Caribbean scholars. Institutions and professional organizations can also facilitate community spaces for Afro-Caribbean women to discuss their experiences with one another.
