The chosen we : Black women's empowerment in higher education /

Draws on and centers oral histories with Black women college graduates to demonstrate the role of community in fostering their success in and beyond education.

Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor principal: Winkle-Wagner, Rachelle (Autor)
Altres autors: Slaughter-Defoe, Diana T. (writer of foreword.)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]
Col·lecció:SUNY series, critical race studies in education.
Accés en línia:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3600094
Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction to the foreword author, Dr. Diana Slaughter
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Black women's self-determination in education from here to eternity
  • Chapter 1. The collective history of Black women's ways of knowing
  • Chapter 2. From the unchosen me to the chosen we : Black women elevating Black women
  • Part II. From individualism to transformative community at predominantly White institutions (PWIs)
  • Chapter 3. Creating an oasis out of isolation : relationships that provide solace on White campuses
  • Chapter 4. Unapologetically embracing Blackness : the importance of Black student organizations on predominantly White campuses
  • Part III. From a collective legacy of racial uplift to empowered individual identity at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs)
  • Chapter 5. Blackness-as-greatness : the normalization of nuanced views of Black excellence within HBCUs
  • Chapter 6. HBCUs as home and family : embracing intersectional and nuanced Blackness through inclusion
  • Part IV. Embodying race, institutional memory, and the Chosen We
  • Chapter 7. From "unity" to "isolation" : comparing experiences within HBCUs and PWIs
  • Chapter 8. In sickness and health on campus : the health inferences of college contexts and health in 60 years of oral history
  • Appendix A. Putting Black women at the center as a White woman : an oral history methodology
  • Appendix B. Participants quoted in the book
  • Appendix C. Reading list of other publications from the project
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.