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Black Women in
the Academy
Promises and
Perils
Edited by Lois Benjamin
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In provocative essays exploring the themes of identity, power,
and change, thirty-three black woman academics and administrators
from around the country discuss their experiences of life in
America’s institutions of higher education.
Often inspiring, these accounts serve collectively both as a
handbook for today’s black female academics, administrators,
graduate students, and junior faculty and as a call to the
nation’s academies to respond to the voice of black women.
It is also a fascinating insiders’ guide to what is going on
in the halls of higher learning today.
Contents
Part One Black Women in the Academy: An Overview
1. A Troubled Peace: Black Women in the Halls of the White
Academy -
Nellie Y. McKay
2. Black Women in Academe: Issues and Strategies -
Yolanda T. Moses
Part Two Alternative Paradigms for Black Women in the Academy:
Epistemological and Ontological Issues
3. Africana Feminism: An Alternative Paradigm for Black Women in
the Academy -
Shelby F. Lewis
4. The African American Female Ontology: Implications for Academe -
Beverly M. John
Part Three Black Women Faculty: Issues in Teaching and Research
5. Giving Name and Voice: Black Women Scholars, Research, and
Knowledge Transformation -
Rose M. Brewer
6. Black Women in Academe: Teaching and Administrating Inside the
Sacred Grove -
Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis
7. Black Women in the Sciences: Challenges along the Pipeline and
in the Academy -
Francine Essien
8. Eurocentric Hegemony in the College Music Curriculum: The
African American Woman Professor Singing the Blues
Donna M. Cox
9. Transforming the Academy: A Black Feminist Perspective
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
10. Begging the Questions and Switching Codes: Insider and
Outsider Discourse of African American Women
Linda Williamson Nelson
11. Teaching Afrocentric Islam in the White Christian South
Amina Wadud-Muhsin
Part Four Black Women Administrators in the Academy
12. Rites of Passage and Rights of Way: A Woman
Administrator’s Experiences -
Phyllis Strong Green
13. "Light as from a Beacon:" African American Women
Administrators in the Academy -
Brunetta Reid Wolfman
14. African American Nursing Administrators in the Academy:
Breaking the Glass Ceiling -
Elnora D. Daniel
15. African American Women Executives: Themes That Bind
Julia R. Miller and Gladys Gary Vaughn
16. Climbing the Administrative Ladder in the Academy: An
Experiential Case History -
Martha E. Dawson
17. Does Leadership Transcend Gender and Race? The Case of
African American Women College Presidents -
M. Colleen Jones
Part Five The Social Dynamics of Academic Life
18. Two Black Women Talking about the Promotion, Retention, and
Tenure Process -
Vernellia R. Randall and Vincene Verdun
19. Tenure and Promotion among African American Women in the
Academy: Issues and Strategies -
Norma J. Burgess
20. Collegiality in the Academy: Where Does the Black Woman Fit? -
J. Nefta Baraka
21. The Dynamics of Patriarchal Meritocracy in the Academy: A
Case Study
Saliwe M. Kawewe
22. Student Harassment of Female Faculty of African Descent in
the Academy -
Jacqueline Pope and Janice Joseph
Part Six Black Women in Diverse Academic Settings
23. Black Women in Diverse Academic Settings: Gender and Racial
Crimes of Commission and Omission in Academia
Saliwe M. Kawewe
24. Another Voice from the Wilderness -
Delo G. Washington
25. An African American Female Senior-Level Administrator: Facing
the Challenges of a Major Research University
Josie R. Johnson
26. Women’s Colleges: The Intersection of Race, Class, and
Gender - Brenda Hoke
27. "I Bring the History of My Experience": Black Women
Professors at Spelman College Teaching out of Their Lives
Mona T. Phillips
28. The African American Female Administrator: A Change Agent
J. Nefta Baraka
Part Seven The Future of Black Women in the Academy
29. The Future of Black Women in the Academy: Reflections on
Struggle -
Darlene Clark Hine
30. Striking the Delicate Balances: The Future of African
American Women in the Academy -
Mamie E. Locke
Lois Benjamin is professor of sociology at Hampton University and
the author of The Black Elite: Facing the Color Line
in the Twilight of the Twentieth Century.
1997. 424 pp. 6 X 9.
1 figure, notes, index.
ISBN 0-8130-1500-6
Cloth, $59.95
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"A volume such as this not only illuminates the complexity of the university setting for Black women, it also validates so many of the experiences that are often encountered in isolation. This book would have been timely a decade ago, and it will be timely a decade from now."--Black Issues in Higher Education
"[T]he text's strength lies in the personal stories of many of the contributors. Told in autobiographical voice, these selections identify many of the perils of academic life that await black women and provide concrete strategies for helping them lay claim to its promises. . . .
Black Women in the Academy is a useful blueprint for the next generation of black women educators." -- Journal of Southern History
"Valuable insights on research, teaching, service, tenure, promotion, retention, and many other critical issues facing black women." --
Florida Historical Quarterly
"[Addresses] the status,
acceptance, progression, and teaching of black women. . . . Gives
insight into the totality of the African American woman’s
experience in the academy."--Shelley Goode, Spelman College
"An invaluable contribution. . . . Documents the negative
experiences of oppression while accentuating the positive nature
of the survival, strength, and resiliency of women oppressed by
the structure of higher education."--Leslie Inniss, Florida
State University
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