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Being Black Academic Mothers, Angela Lewis, Sherri Wallace, Clarissa Peterson
Being Black Academic Mothers, Angela Lewis, Sherri Wallace, Clarissa Peterson
Sherri L. Wallace
A career in academe provides professors with flexibility and autonomy. Despite this, academic mothers face challenges in balancing work and family. Black academic mothers may face additional demands including battling hidden bias and misconceptions. This essay utilizes autoethnography to demonstrate how Black academic mothers balance their careers and motherhood. Personal narratives are used to identify emergent themes that serve as a basis to provide recommendations for understanding and improving working conditions for mothers in academe.