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Architects of Change in the Ivory Tower: Recasting the Role of Black Women Engaged in Higher Education Professional Counterspaces

Architects of Change in the Ivory Tower: Recasting the Role of Black Women Engaged in Higher Education Professional Counterspaces

Nicole M. West, Tamara Bertrand Jones
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 30
ISBN13: 9781522559429|ISBN10: 1522559426|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522587675|EISBN13: 9781522559436
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5942-9.ch002
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West, Nicole M., and Tamara Bertrand Jones. "Architects of Change in the Ivory Tower: Recasting the Role of Black Women Engaged in Higher Education Professional Counterspaces." Navigating Micro-Aggressions Toward Women in Higher Education, edited by Ursula Thomas, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 23-52. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5942-9.ch002

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West, N. M. & Jones, T. B. (2019). Architects of Change in the Ivory Tower: Recasting the Role of Black Women Engaged in Higher Education Professional Counterspaces. In U. Thomas (Ed.), Navigating Micro-Aggressions Toward Women in Higher Education (pp. 23-52). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5942-9.ch002

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West, Nicole M., and Tamara Bertrand Jones. "Architects of Change in the Ivory Tower: Recasting the Role of Black Women Engaged in Higher Education Professional Counterspaces." In Navigating Micro-Aggressions Toward Women in Higher Education, edited by Ursula Thomas, 23-52. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5942-9.ch002

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Abstract

Although it is critical to foreground discussions about the historical vestiges of racist and sexist ideologies that are embedded in the experiences of contemporary Black women in the academy, it is equally important to highlight the role these women are playing in challenging the existence of these structures. There are a growing number of Black women student affairs administrators and faculty engaging in professional counterspaces as a strategy to re-architect the reality of their lives in the academy. Two such programs in the U.S., the African American Women's Summit (AAWS) and the Sisters of the Academy Research BootCamp (RBC), were created by, for, and about Black women employed in higher education to redress the problematic environments these women encounter in academia. In this chapter, the authors explore how tenets of Black feminist thought (BFT) and collective movement activism are integral to the AAWS and RBC and clarify the role Black women student affairs administrators and faculty engaged in these professional counterspaces are playing as architects of change in the ivory tower.

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