Black Women, Academe, and the Tenure Process in the United States and the Caribbean

• Main Authors: Esnard, Talia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Cobb-Roberts, Deirdre (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Higher education.; Gender identity in education.; Assessment.; Higher Education.; Gender and Education.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.

This book explores the meanings, experiences, and challenges faced by Black women faculty that are either on the tenure track or have earned tenure. The authors advance the notion of comparative intersectionality to tease through the contextual peculiarities and commonalities that define their ident...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The Stony Road We Trod: Black Women, Education, and Tenure
• Chapter 2. Changing Educational Landscapes: the Challenge of Academic Capitalism
• Chapter 3. Experiences of Black Women in academe: A comparative analysis
• Chapter 4. Black Women in Higher Education: Towards Comparative Intersectionality
• Chapter 5. Comparative Intersectionality: An Intra-Categorical Approach
• Chapter 6. Black Women in Academe: A Duo-Ethnography
• Chapter 7. Experiences of Black women in the Caribbean Academy
• Chapter 8. Afro-Caribbean women in the US Academy
• Chapter 9. Still We Rise: Struggle, Strength, Survival, and Success. .