From Oppression to Grace Women of Color and Their Dilemmas Within the Academy

Name: From Oppression to Grace Women of Color and Their Dilemmas Within the Academy
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ISBN: 9781579221119

ISBN-10: 1579221114

ISBN-13: 9781579221119

Edition: 2005

Authors: Theodorea Regina Berry, Nathalie Mizelle

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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 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. Women of color are frequently relegated--on account both of race and womanhood--into monolithic categories that perpetuate oppression, subdue and suppress conflict, and silence voices. This book uses critical race feminism (CRF) to place women of color in the center, rather than the margins, of the discussion, theorizing, research and…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Stylus Publishing, LLC
Publication date: 9/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.968

Theodorea Regina Berry is Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL.

Nathalie Mizelle is Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Studies, the School of Allied Health Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: What the Fuck, Now What?: The Social and Psychological Dilemmas of Multidimensional Being as a Woman of Color in the Academy




Move on Up a Little Higher: Completing the Terminal Degree



The Journey of an African American Female Chemist-Scholar




My Skin is Brown and I Do Not Wear a Tie: Exploring My Selves as a Southern, Black, Educated, Christian Woman




Bridging Identities: Making Sense of Who We Are Becoming to Be




Watching, My Other Education: Vicarious Learning about Gender and Race in the Professorate




Balancing the Margin is My Center: A Navajo Woman's Navigations through the Academy and Her Community




Transitions: Finding My Voice




In Between China and North America




Both Oppressor and Oppressed: An Asian Indian Woman's Experience within the Academy




Mentoring and Its Role in Scholarly Development




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




The "Intercultural Space" Where Worlds Collide




Sides of the Tenure and Promotion Process: Can I Be a Parental Figure, Scholar, and Spouse?




Perspectives on Negotiating Identity and Profession at a Historically Black College or University




Choosing My Best Thing: Black Motherhood and Academia




Seen, Not Heard: A Conversation on What It Means to Be Black and Female in the Academy




In this Place Where I Don't Quite Belong: Claiming the Ontoepistemological In-Between




Una Lucha de Fronteras (A Struggle of Borders): Women of Color in the Academy




Words of Womanhood Wisdom: Voices of Senior Faculty Who are Women of Color



Critical Race Feminist Foremothering: Multiplicities in the Post 9/11 World




A Nuyorican in the Academy: Lessons Learned



Index