Beyond Retention

Cultivating Spaces of Equity, Justice, and Fairness for Women of Color in U.S. Higher Education

Author: Brenda Louise Hammett Marina
Secondary Author: Sabrina Ross
ISBN: 9781681234144

A volume in Research for Social Justice: Personal Passionate Participatory Inquiry Series Editors: Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University and JoAnn Phillion, Purdue University In Beyond Retention: Cultivating Spaces of Equity, Fairness, and Justice for Women of Color in U.S. Higher Education, Brenda Marina and Sabrina N. Ross address the continued underrepresentation of women faculty of color at predominantly White colleges and universities through a creative convergence of scholarship focused on intellectual activism and structural change. Inspired by the African American oral tradition of call and response, this text illuminates the calls, or personal narratives of women faculty of color who identify racialized, gendered, sexualized, and class-based challenges associated with work in predominantly White institutions. Accounts of social justice-oriented strategies, policies, and practices that support women faculty of color and reflections by women of color who are senior faculty m

Publisher: IAP, Information Age Publishing, Incorporated
Publish Date: 2016

Subjects: Education / Administration / Higher

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Women in Academia)