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Young, Gifted, And Black: A Narrative Of Persistence Of Black Women In Academia, Zelda Tackey
Young, Gifted, And Black: A Narrative Of Persistence Of Black Women In Academia, Zelda Tackey
Masters Theses, 2020-current
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the storied experiences of Black women at predominantly white institutions (PWI) of higher education. I adopt a phronetic iterative approach to the qualitative analysis of interviewed Black women to explore how the image of a Strong Black Woman mediates a storied understanding to microaggressions, invisibility and racial battle fatigue. I present that survivor narratives typically employed to explain Black women’s encounters on the PWI are ill-suited for interpreting their experiences of campus life, and that the storying of persistence may be more insightful for generating an understanding of a Black womanhood that …