Working while Black : the untold stories of student affairs practitioners / edited by Antione D. Tomlin (Anne Arundel Community College).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tomlin, Antione D., editor.

Series:

Identity & practice in higher education-student affairs.

Identity and practice in higher education -- student affairs / Pietro A. Sasso and Shelley Price-Williams, series editors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Student affairs services--United States.

Student affairs services.

African American student affairs administrators--Attitudes.

African American student affairs administrators.

Minorities in higher education--United States.

Minorities in higher education.

Racism in higher education--United States.

Racism in higher education.

Discrimination in higher education--United States.

Discrimination in higher education.

Universities and colleges--United States--Administration.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 183 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2022]

Summary:

Working While Black: The Untold Stories of Student Affairs Practitioners will examine the narratives of student affairs professionals and how they navigate their professional experiences. While student affairs can be a high pressure and high stress environment for all professionals, Black professionals are often overworked, underheard, and made to feel devalued. Therefore, it is important to consider how student affairs professionals are managing the profession, colleagues, and students while Black.I approach this book from an asset-based approach where chapter authors are approaching both the challenges and opportunities they have experienced due to being a Black while working as a student affairs practitioner. Chapter authors also provide poignant advice on how current and potential student affairs professionals can successfully navigate the field. One especially important contribution of this book is that our authors are from a variety of student affairs areas including: residence life, student engagement, career services, counseling, student conduct, athletics, student activities, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and academic advising. Additionally, chapter authors are student affairs professionals at predominantly White institutions, historically Black colleges and universities, and online universities. Given the breadth of experiences each chapter will provide poignant suggestions for student affairs practitioners across the nation as well as for institutions who are looking to better understand these experiences to better support their own employees.Popular education press and scholarly conversations have focused on the experiences of student affairs professionals (Renn & Hodges, 2007). There has also been scholarship around the Black student affairs professional experience (West, 2015; Husband. 2016). This book will add to the current press and scholarly conversations by allowing Black student affairs professionals to tell their own stories, providing additional insight into what it is like to work while Black. Institutions of higher education can learn much from the stories shared in this book that can inform the recruitment and retention of Black professionals. Thus, Working While Black: The Untold Stories of Student Affairs Practitioners is positioned to be a must read for all higher education professionals and institutions who are looking for strategies to support Black student affairs professionals.

Contents:

Introduction / Antione D. Tomlin

Not all superHERoes wear capes / Jenn C. Brad

Where do I go from here? The journey of being led by the lost / DeShawn Burrell

Shit I hear in my office / Kisha E. Calbert

When I finally got a Black boss / Jasmine C. Marks

Dear colleagues : it's not me, it's you / DeAnna Katey

Angry advocate relations : standpoints and lessons from one Black feminist womxn in student affairs / Avina I. Ross

What not to do : the "token" Black man / Geffrey L. Colbert

Do I really belong here? / Corey D. Robinson

To be young, black, and doctoring : the fight to be PhinisheD while working full time / Relius Johnson

Dark matter or a matter of darkness? Queermisia, AfroPessimism, and fatimisia in higher education / Olajiwon K. McCadney

Black, young ... and disabled? Thoughts from a disabled Black male student affairs practitioner / Laventrice S. Ridgeway

"You forgot your pearls and gloves" : a meditation from a vice president of student affairs / Davida L. Haywood

You said it, you meant it, but I have moved on / Dorothea M. Mack

Walking the line : Black student advocacy and self preservation / Jayson E. L. Douglas

Sis is tired : the trials and tribulations of being a professional Black women in higher education / Zakia Johnson

The expectation of Black martyrdom in support of the student and the importance of boundaries / Aja Simpson Zulfiqar

Invisible and in the way, yet we still rise / LaDarius Thompson

Ambition is bait / Kira Gatewood

Conclusion / Antione D. Tomlin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-64802-735-0

OCLC:

1313880735