When will the joy come? : Black women in the ivory tower / edited by Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, Michelle Dionne Thompson, and Abena Ampofoa Asare.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chapdelaine, Robin Phylisia, editor.

Thompson, Michelle Dionne, editor.

Asare, Abena Ampofoa, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

African American intellectual history

African American intellectual history series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women in higher education.

African American graduate students.

Women graduate students.

African American women college teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)

Other Title:

Black women in the ivory tower

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2023]

Contents:

Introduction. Telling the story true / Abena Ampofoa Asare, Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine and Michelle Dionne Thompson

We are the ones who make the space for the next Black woman to get to the top / Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine

No easy road : my journey from Ph.D. To tenure-track employment / Felice F. Knight

"Now I'm choosing life, yo" : neo-soul music and poetry as Black women's joy work in graduate school and the academic job search / Ashley D. Clemons

Notes from the bottom : Black women doctoral students as academic mules, mammies, and maids in American academia / Kristian Contreras

"Getting a Ph.D. Will make ya or break ya" : surviving the make ya in the ivory tower / Kimberly Stanley

A view from the margins of academia / Michelle Dionne Thompson

Taking one for the team? : Reconciling individual ambition and the greater good / Littisha A. Bates and Whitney Gaskins

Crossroads post tenure : should I stay or should I go? / Heather I. Scott and Nyasha M. GuramatunhuCooper

Tokenization in the era of performative wokeness : lessons from the tenure track / M. Smith

Navigating the ivory tower : a community approach / Paula W. White, Eva M. Gibson, and Jessica A. Fripp

Seeking corrective policy and practice / Tiffany Monique Quash

Sail fast / Annette Kappert

Backs of steel : the experience of Black women leaders in contemporary academia / Prisca Anuforo, Elizabeth Locke, Myra Robinson, and Christine Thorpe

The quotidian life of anti-Black woman-ness in ethnic studies policy and procedure / LeAnna T. Luney & Cassandra Gonzalez

Marronage in the ivory tower / Cécile Accilien

Four Black German women : on being othered, anger at whiteness, practicing joy, and finding belonging in solitude / Anonymous

Dreaming of elsewhere : Black women professors out of place / Abena Ampofoa Asare.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 10, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: When will the joy come?

ISBN:

9781685750282

1685750281

Publisher Number:

40031872780

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.