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
Talia Esnard is Lecturer in the Department of Behavioural Sciences at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago.
Deirdre Cobb-Roberts is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational and Psychological Studies at the University of South Florida, USA.
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 identities as Black women and their experiences with tenure and promotion across the two geographical spaces. By so doing, it works through a comparative treatment of existing social (in)equalities, educational (dis)parities, and (in)justices in the promotion and retention of Black women academics. Such interpretative examinations offer important insights into how Black women’s subjugated knowledge and experiences continue to be suppressed within mainstream structures of power and how they are negotiated across contexts.