Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance [Hardcover]

This book documents the lived experiences of women of color academics who have leveraged their professional positions to challenge the status quo in their scholarship, teaching, service, activism, and leadership. By presenting reflexive work from various vantage points within and outside of the academy, contributors document the cultivation of mentoring relationships, the use of administrative roles to challenge institutional leadership, and more. Through an emphasis on the various ways in which women of color have succeeded in the academyalbeit with setbacks along the waythis volume aims to change the discourse surrounding women of color academics: from a focus on trauma and mere survival to a focus on courage and thriving.

Foreword

By Bianca Williams

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

By Manya C. Whitaker and Eric Anthony Grollman

PART I: Resisting Convention: Counternarratives to Conventional Norms and Practices in the Academy

Chapter 2: Leading as a Chicana Feminist in a Predominantly White Institution

By Yolanda Flores Niemann

Chapter 3: What Looks Like Bravery in the Academy: Reflections of an African-American Woman Engineer

By Gilda Barabino

Chapter 4: Being Brave in the Ivory Towers as Zape-tah-hol-ah (Sticks with Bow)

By Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Starr Minthorn

Chapter 5: Working the Cracks in Academia and Beyond: Cultivating Race and Social Justice Convergence Spaces, Networks and Liberation Capital for Social Transformation in the Neoliberal University

By Nancy L?pez