{"product_id":"still-searching-for-our-mothers-gardens-experiences-of-new-tenuretrack-women-of-color-at-majority-institutions-9780761855149","title":"Still Searching For Our Mothers Gardens","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edited volume seeks to share the multifaceted experiences of tenure-track women of color in institutions of higher learning. This community of women often endures unique hardships teaching at institutions in which they are not a majority. Their experiences are richly captured in this collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays continues the important work of situating the women-of-color experience into larger issues of institutional equity and social change. Distinctly, this volume features insightful, contemporary research on communication between women of color and their peers, administrators, and students, while also managing to foreground and maintain connections between women of color who are new to the academy and the rich heritage and legacies of our institutional foremothers. ... [T]he collection is highly successful on many levels. This volume is necessary, given the current landscape in academe. Not only does it update and revise notions of struggle and inequality for female professors of color, but its strength lies in that it does so across different majority institutional spaces. Another unique feature of the text is the way in which it integrates religion and ethnicity, resisting a black\/white binary while understanding it as the primary race-relations context in which institutions of higher education are situated. The volume is strong in its varied use of feminist theory, spanning postcolonial feminism, womanist frameworks, paradigms of black feminist thought, auto-ethnography, and standpoint epistemology. ... The volume resonates because it not only uncovers obstacles encountered by women of color, but provides strategies for success and coping mechanisms as well. The collection builds on academic theory and feminist praxis in order to inspire, heal, and bear witness—all essential ingredients for the scholarly woman-of-color soul. * Feminist Collections: A Quarterly Of Women's Studies Resources *\u003cbr\u003eStill Searching for Our Mothers' Gardens recalls the seminal essay by Alice Walker in which she captures the rich, but largely unacknowledged, cultural traditions of African American women. [This book represents] the latest in a growing body of long overdue scholarship that explores the complex and varied experiences of a tiny group in higher education.…. Compelling, informative, cross-disciplinary, diverse, and insightful in its range of contributions … this is a must-read for scholars interested in close-up portraits of the experiences of junior women of color academics. -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D., Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies, Spelman College, president of the National Women's Studies Association\u003cbr\u003eTaken together, these essays draw on the experiences of 'triple jeopardy' (race, class, and gender) to generate … innovative approaches to pedagogy and research that will benefit all scholars. Regardless of your field or your identity, if you want to glimpse the future of the academy-or at least what it could become-you must read this book. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003cbr\u003eThis compelling collection weaves a richly-textured tapestry of how women of color navigate the tenure track at predominantly white institutions of higher learning.…. Engaging, enlightening, and inspiring, this volume illuminates the exciting potential of communication to transform the ivory tower into a welcoming space for women of color. -- Brenda J. Allen, University of Colorado at Denver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1 Acknowledgements Part 2 Foreword Part 3 Introduction Part 4 MANAGING TENSIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS: DIVERSITY IN QUESTION Chapter 5 Disclose and Demystify: The Discrepancy Between the Concept of Diversity and the Action of Diversity in the Face of \"Stubborn Faculty, Wary Students, and Unsupportive Administrators\" Chapter 6 A Muted Voice on Holy Ground: Reflections on the Dialectics Experienced as an African American Female Professor in a Christian University Chapter 7 Watching My B\/lack: The Not So Colorblind World of Academia Part 8 CONFRONTING PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION: STRATEGIES OF SURVIVAL Chapter 9 A Different Kind of Professor Chapter 10 Standpoint Theory and Discontinuing Denial of Racism, Sexism, and Ageism Chapter 11 Negotiating Resistance: Challenges of a Female Faculty Member of Color from an Islamic Arab Background Chapter 12 Playing the Game: Communicative Practices for Negotiating Politics and Preparing for Tenure Part 13 RESPONDING TO 'OTHERNESS': NAVIGATING IDENTITY Chapter 14 Barriers to Being Heard in a Majority Institution Chapter 15 Women of Colour in the Academy: The South Asian 'Corner' Chapter 16 Strangers in the Ivory Tower: Framing International Female Faculty Identity Negotiations in a 'Majority' Academic Institution Chapter 17 My Brown Body as Strange and Suspect: Painful Moments and Powerful Realizations Part 18 EXPERIENCING DIFFERENCE IN THE CLASSROOM: TEACHING 'MAJORITY' STUDENTS Chapter 19 Living Creativity: Teaching as Art Chapter 20 \"One of These Things is Not Like the Others\": Experiences of African-American Women Professors with Majority-Race Students Part 21 WORKING WITH SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) Chapter 22 Navigating New Terrains: Socialization Challenges of African-American Female Tenure-Track Faculty in the STEM Disciplines Chapter 23 Multiplying the Others From the Margins: Experiences of a Black, Female, Junior Faculty Member Teaching in a Non-STEM Discipline at a STEM Institution Part 24 Concluding Thoughts Part 25 Index Part 26 About the Editors Part 27 About the Contributors","brand":"University Press of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037864427863,"sku":"9780761855149","price":38.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761855149.jpg?v=1750937894","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/still-searching-for-our-mothers-gardens-experiences-of-new-tenuretrack-women-of-color-at-majority-institutions-9780761855149","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}