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.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | SUNY series, critical race studies in education.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18254922 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.