Gifted Black Women Navigating the Doctoral Process: Sister Insider

ISBN-13: 9781032261874 / Angielski

Brittany N. Anderson; Shaquinta L. Richardson

Opis

This book explores the experiences of gifted Black women doctoral graduates, featuring narratives of their challenges related to race, gender, parenthood, class and first-generation status, and offers discussion on the role of community and academic support in their success.

Recenzje

"I firmly believe that this text is destined to become a classic, of uniquely lasting value for generations to come."

Joy Lawson Davis, Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity in Education, US

Spis treści

 Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Navigating the Doctoral Experience as First-Generation, Gifted Black Women: Our Path, Our Voice

2 MISUNRE: Navigating the Doctoral Journey as an Exceptionally Gifted Black Woman

3 It Takes a Village: Cultivating Belonging, Community, and Sisterhood

4 Face Your Studies: Exploring Education, Opportunity, and Community as a First-Generation Immigrant

5 The Evolution of My Biracial Identity through Attending Two Predominately White Institutions

6 All of Me: Centering Homeplace in Personal and Professional Reflections of Becoming a Blackgirl Motherscholar

7 Truth Be Told: Testimonies of a Black Stem Health Scholar-Wife-Mother

8 Navigating the Doctoral Process While Experiencing Tragedy

9 Imagining a New Thing through Active Disruption: Tools to Center Black Aliveness and Wholeness for Black Women in Doctoral Programs

Afterword: Black Gifted Women Journeying-Together

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Index

O autorze

Brittany N. Anderson is an Assistant Professor in Urban Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the Department of Middle, Secondary, and K–12 Education. Her research focuses on university-school-community partnerships that support talent development and the identification of minoritized youth in urban schools.

Shaquinta L. Richardson is an entrepreneur, consultant, and life coach for high-achieving Black women. She is a former Marriage and Family Therapist and Professor of Marriage and Family Studies. Her academic research centered on the influence of racial and gender identity on experiences of Black American women with intellectual and developmental disabilities within the family context.