From oppression to grace : women of color and their dilemmas in the academy

Berry, Theodorea Regina, 1963- (Added Author). Mizelle, Nathalie D. (Added Author).

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. Women of color are frequently relegated--on account of both race and womanhood--into monolithic categories that perpetuate oppression, subdue and suppress conflict, and silence voices. This book uses critical race feminism to place women of color in the center, rather than at the margins, of the discussion, theorizing, research and praxis of their lives as they co-exist in the dominant culture."--Publisher description, from page 4 of cover.

Record details

ISBN: 1579221106
ISBN: 9781579221102
ISBN: 1579221114
ISBN: 9781579221119
Physical Description: print
xix, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : What the fuck? Now what? : the social and psychological dilemmas of multi-dimensional being as a woman of color in the academy / Theodorea Regina Berry -- The journey of an African American female chemist-scholar / Amanda C. Bryant-Friedrich -- My skin is brown and I do not wear a tie : exploring my selves as a Southern, Black, educated, Christian woman / Menthia P. Clark -- Bridging identities : making sense of who we are becoming to be / Aki Murata -- Watching, my other education : vicarious learning about gender and race in the professorate / M. Francyne Huckaby -- Balancing the margin is my center : a Navajo woman's navigations through the academy and her community / Tiffany S. Lee -- Transitions : finding my voice / Tinaya Webb -- In-between China and North America / Ming Fang He -- Both oppressor and oppressed : an Asian-Indian woman's experience within the academy / Kiran Katira -- Mentoring and its role in scholarly development / Beatrice Bridglall -- Being all things to all people : expectations of and demands on women of color in the legal academy / Danielle Conway-Jones -- The "intercultural space" where worlds collide / Amanda Kim -- Sides of the tenure and promotion process : can I be a parental figure, scholar, and spouse? / Cassandra Sligh DeWalt -- Perspectives on negotiating identity and profession at a historically Black college or university / Cassandra Sligh DeWalt, Cheryl Thompkins Horton -- Choosing my best thing : Black motherhood and academia / KaaVonia Hinton-Johnson -- Seen, not heard : a conversation on what it means to be Black and female in the academy / LaVada Taylor Brandon -- In this place where I don't quite belong : claiming the ontoepistemological in-between / Denise Taliaferro Baszile -- Una lucha de fronteras (a struggle of borders) : women of color in the academy / Maria V. Balderrama Mary T. Texeira Elsa Valdez -- Critical race feminist foremothering : multiplicities in the post 9-11 world / Adrien Katherine Wing -- A Nuyorican in the academy : lessons learned / Sonia Nieto.