Degrees of difference : reflections of women of color on graduate school / Kimberly D. McKee and Denise A. Delgado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKee, Kimberly D.

Contributor:

McKee, Kimberly (Kimberly D.), editor.

Delgado, Denise A., editor.

Series:

Illinois scholarship online.

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in higher education--United States.

Minority women--United States.

Minority graduate students--United States.

Universities and colleges--United States--Graduate work.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2020.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021.

Summary:

'Degrees of Difference' uses personal narrative supported by scholarly research to identify the struggles faced by women of colour in graduate school and the methods deployed by women to mitigate the academic and emotional struggles they face. Contributors represent a diverse group of women from different ethnic, racial, and national origin backgrounds in fields ranging from the humanities to sciences. The essays engage common themes that recur in many women of colour's narratives: racial microaggressions, alienation, disillusionment, a lack of departmental and institutional support, imposter syndrome, a lack of self-care, and limited support from family and partners.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 27, 2020).

ISBN:

0-252-05206-4

OCLC:

1141041024