Navigating micro-aggressions toward women in higher education /

"This book uncovers the institutionalized racism of higher education and women of color; as well as how it is navigated by women of color. Through a critical lens, the narrative of that difficulty will be unpacked examined and deconstructed by the very women on the receiving end of these aggres...

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Corporate Authors: IGI Global
Group Author: Thomas, Ursula, 1972- (Editor)
Published: IGI Global,
Publisher Address: Hershey, Pennsylvania :
Publication Dates: [2019]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-5225-5942-9
Summary: "This book uncovers the institutionalized racism of higher education and women of color; as well as how it is navigated by women of color. Through a critical lens, the narrative of that difficulty will be unpacked examined and deconstructed by the very women on the receiving end of these aggressions"--
Carrier Form: 22 PDFs (xxiii, 304 pages)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781522559436
Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
Index Number: LB2332
CLC: G645.14
Contents: Chapter 1. Microaggressions: an introduction -- Chapter 2. Architects of change in the ivory tower: recasting the role of black women engaged in higher education professional counterspaces -- Chapter 3. From PWI to HBCU: when the oppressed takes on the characteristics of the oppressor -- Chapter 4. Owning black hair: the pursuit of identity and authenticity in higher education -- Chapter 5. Critical examination of tokenism and demands of organizational citizenship behavior among faculty women of color -- Chapter 6. Claws and all: women of color and the pitfalls of dominant culture leadership -- Chapter 7. Undermining leadership effectiveness -- Chapter 8. The black one: microaggressions in a criminal justice program -- Chapter 9. What's respect got to do with it?: a black woman's experience with the role of respect in academia -- Chapter 10. Praxis of the teaching profession: a dialectic of institutional oppression and the development of pedagogy and critical consciousness -- Chapter 11. Molding me in their image -- Chapter 12. Analyzing university exploitation of diversity to legitimize hiring discrimination: a black woman professor's narrative.