1st Edition
Black Feminist Epistemology, Research, and Praxis Narratives in and through the Academy
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.
Series Editor’s Introduction
Frank A. Bonner II
Foreword: "Speak Your Names"
Venus E. Evans-Winters
- Applying Black Feminist Epistemologies, Research, and Praxis: An Introduction
- Twenty Years Later … The Narrative for Black Women Remains the Same, or Does It?
- Reimagining Black Feminist Epistemology and Praxis: Reflecting on the Contemporary and Evolving Conceptual Framework of One Black Faculty Woman’s Academic Life
- Maids of Academe in Historically White Institutions: Revisited Against the Backdrop of ‘Black Lives Matter’
- The Black Woman is God: Cultivating the Power of a Disruptive Presence
- What Black Cyberfeminism Teaches Us About Black Women on College Campuses
- Uprooting the Prevalence of Misogynoir in Counselor Education
- Intersectionality Methodology and the Black Women Committed to 'Write-Us' Resistance
- Advancing African Dance as a Practice of Freedom
- Spirit Murder: Black Women’s Realities in the Academy
- Sista Circles with SistUH Scholars: Socializing Black Women Doctoral Students
- #BlackInTheIvory: Utilizing Twitter to Explore Black Womxn's Experiences in the Academy
- Repurposing My Status as an Outsider Within: A Black Feminist Scholar-Pracademic’s Journey to Becoming an Invested Indifferent
- Navigating a Womanist Caring Framework: Centering Womanist Geographies within Social Foundations for Black Academic Survival
- Black Feminist Thought from Theory to Praxis: "This is MY LIFE"
- How Positionality and Intersectionality Impact Black Women’s Faculty Teaching Narratives: Grounded Histories
- Supporting Black Womyn Associate Professors to the Full Professorship
- Black Women in Academic Leadership: Reflections of One Department Chair's Journey in Engineering
- In Conversation: Engaging (with) the Narratives of Two Black Women Full Professor Leaders
Christa J. Porter, V. Thandi Sulé, and Natasha N. Croom
SECTION I
Historical overview: Situating (Counter)Stories in the Academy
Reitumetse O. Mabokela and Yeukai A. Mlambo
Sheila T. Gregory
Debra A. Harley
Emerald Templeton
SECTION II
Utility of Black Feminist Epistemologies, Research, and Praxis
Shawna Patterson-Stephens and Nadrea R. Njoku
Olivia T. Ngadjui
Chayla Haynes, Saran Stewart, Evette L. Allen Moore, Nicole M. Joseph, and Lori D. Patton
Shani Collins and Truth Hunter
Ebony J. Aya
Tiffany J. Davis and April L. Peters
SECTION III
Black Feminist Praxis Enacted: Journeying Toward Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion
Christina Wright Fields and Katrina M. Overby
Nicole M. West
Taryrn T. C. Brown and E. Nichole Murray
Tiffany L. Steele
Rhonda C. Hylton
SECTION IV
Canary in the Coal Mine: Journeying from Associate to Academic Administrator and Full Professor
Stacey D. Garrett and Natasha N. Croom
Meseret F. Hailu and Monica F. Cox
Christa J. Porter, V. Thandi Sulé, and Natasha N. Croom
Enact, Discard, and Transform: Black Women’s Agentic Epistemology
V. Thandi Sulé
Afterword
Christa J. Porter, V. Thandi Sulé, and Natasha N. Croom
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Biography
Christa J. Porter is an Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration and Student Affairs at Kent State University, USA.
V. Thandi Sulé is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Oakland University, USA.
Natasha N. Croom is an Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs at Clemson University, USA.
In [this book] you will see/feel/hear Black women scholars (as educators, mentors, advocates, sisters, daughters, and mothers) take up space, and concomitantly, refuse space….Throughout this text [Black women academicians] boldly engage in narrative inquiry, storytelling, poetry, and prose as cultural productions that serve to speak against dominant narratives that attempt to render Black women intellectual activists invisible and erase [them] from the historical record.
--From the Foreword by Venus E. Evans-Winters, former Professor of Education at Illinois State University, USA, founder of Planet Venus, and creator of the Write Like A Scholar program.
