From Oppression To Grace: Women of Color and Their Dilemmas in the Academy

by Berry, Theodorea Regina

• ISBN13: 9781579221119
• ISBN10: 1579221114
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-30
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

This book gives voice to the experiences of women of color - women of African, Native American, Latina, East Indian, Korean, and Japanese descent - as students pursuing terminal degrees and as junior and senior faculty members navigating the academy, grappling with the dilemmas encountered by others and themselves as they exist at the intersections of their work and identities.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: What the Fuck, Now What?: The Social and Psychological Dilemmas of Multidimensional Being as a Woman of Color in the Academy	p. xi
Move on Up a Little Higher: Completing the Terminal Degree
The Journey of an African American Female Chemist-Scholar	p. 3
My Skin is Brown and I Do Not Wear a Tie: Exploring My Selves as a Southern, Black, Educated, Christian Woman	p. 13
Bridging Identities: Making Sense of Who We Are Becoming to Be	p. 24
Watching, My Other Education: Vicarious Learning about Gender and Race in the Professorate	p. 34
Balancing the Margin is My Center: A Navajo Woman's Navigations through the Academy and Her Community	p. 44
Transitions: Finding My Voice	p. 59
In Between China and North America	p. 68
Both Oppressor and Oppressed: An Asian Indian Woman's Experience within the Academy	p. 77
Mentoring and Its Role in Scholarly Development	p. 89
Pride and Prejudice: Finding Your Place After the Degree
Being All Things to All People: Expectations of and Demands on Women of Color in the Legal Academy	p. 121
The "Intercultural Space" Where Worlds Collide	p. 131
Sides of the Tenure and Promotion Process: Can I Be a Parental Figure, Scholar, and Spouse?	p. 138
Perspectives on Negotiating Identity and Profession at a Historically Black College or University	p. 147
Choosing My Best Thing: Black Motherhood and Academia	p. 155
Seen, Not Heard: A Conversation on What It Means to Be Black and Female in the Academy	p. 168
In this Place Where I Don't Quite Belong: Claiming the Ontoepistemological In-Between	p. 195
Una Lucha de Fronteras (A Struggle of Borders): Women of Color in the Academy	p. 209
Words of Womanhood Wisdom: Voices of Senior Faculty Who are Women of Color
Critical Race Feminist Foremothering: Multiplicities in the Post 9/11 World	p. 233
A Nuyorican in the Academy: Lessons Learned	p. 244
Index	p. 257
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