From oppression to grace : women of color and their dilemmas in the academy / edited by Theodorea Regina Berry and Nathalie D. Mizelle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berry, Theodorea Regina, 1963-

Mizelle, Nathalie D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex discrimination in higher education--United States.

Sex discrimination in higher education.

Women in higher education.

United States.

Women in higher education--United States.

Feminism and education--United States.

Feminism and education.

Physical Description:

xix, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2006.

Summary:

This book gives voice to the experiences of women of color - women of African, Native American, Latina, East Indian, Korean, and Japanese descent - as students pursuing terminal degrees and as junior and senior faculty members navigating the academy, grappling with the dilemmas encountered by others and themselves as they exist at the intersections of their work and identities.

Women of color are frequently relegated - on account of both race and womanhood - into monolithic categories that perpetuate oppression, subdue and suppress conflict, and silence voices. This book uses critical race feminism to place women of color in the center, rather than at the margins, of the discussion, theorizing, research, and praxis of their lives as they co-exist in the dominant culture.

This book makes salient three characteristics of critical race feminism. Just as it places emphasis on the application of theory to real life issues, the authors' narratives address concerns about the academic community, home, and family. Just as it supports a discourse of resistance, the book provides a forum for different voices as multi-representations of the counterstories against the acceptance of the dominant culture. And, finally, the contributors' stories reflect critical race feminism's emphasis on narrative to deepen the understanding of their lives as women of color.

This book is for all women of color growing up in the academy, learning to stand on their own, taking first steps, mastering the language, walking, running, falling and getting up to run again - and illuminates the process of self-definition that is essential to their growth as scholars and individuals.

Contents:

Introduction: What the Fuck, Now What?: The Social and Psychological Dilemmas of Multidimensional Being as a Woman of Color in the Academy / Theodorea Regina Berry xi

Part 1 Move on Up a Little Higher: Completing the Terminal Degree

1 The Journey of an African American Female Chemist-Scholar / Amanda C. Bryant-Friedrich 3

2 My Skin is Brown and I Do Not Wear a Tie: Exploring My Selves as a Southern, Black, Educated, Christian Woman / Menthia P. Clark 13

3 Bridging Identities: Making Sense of Who We Are Becoming to Be / Aki Murata 24

4 Watching, My Other Education: Vicarious Learning about Gender and Race in the Professorate / M. Francyne Huckaby 34

5 Balancing the Margin is My Center: A Navajo Woman's Navigations through the Academy and Her Community / Tiffany S. Lee 44

6 Transitions: Finding My Voice / Tinaya Webb 59

7 In Between China and North America / Ming Fang He 68

8 Both Oppressor and Oppressed: An Asian Indian Woman's Experience within the Academy / Kiran Katira 77

9 Mentoring and Its Role in Scholarly Development / Beatrice Bridglall 89

Part 2 Pride and Prejudice: Finding Your Place After the Degree

10 Being All Things to All People: Expectations of and Demands on Women of Color in the Legal Academy / Danielle Conway-Jones 121

11 The "Intercultural Space" Where Worlds Collide / Amanda Kim 131

12 Sides of the Tenure and Promotion Process: Can I Be a Parental Figure, Scholar, and Spouse? / Cassandra Sligh DeWalt 138

13 Perspectives on Negotiating Identity and Profession at a Historically Black College or University / Cassandra Sligh DeWalt, Cheryl Thompkins Horton 147

14 Choosing My Best Thing: Black Motherhood and Academia / KaaVonia Hinton-Johnson 155

15 Seen, Not Heard: A Conversation on What It Means to Be Black and Female in the Academy / LaVada Taylor Brandon 168

16 In this Place Where I Don't Quite Belong: Claiming the Ontoepistemological In-Between / Denise Taliaferro Baszile 195

17 Una Lucha de Fronteras (A Struggle of Borders): Women of Color in the Academy / Maria V. Balderrama, Mary T. Texeira, Elsa Valdez 209

Part 3 Words of Womanhood Wisdom: Voices of Senior Faculty Who are Women of Color

18 Critical Race Feminist Foremothering: Multiplicities in the Post 9/11 World / Adrien Katherine Wing 233

19 A Nuyorican in the Academy: Lessons Learned / Sonia Nieto 244.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1579221106

1579221114

OCLC:

60664274

Publisher Number:

9781579221119