Black Women, Academe, and the Tenure Process in the United States and the Caribbean

1. Front Matter

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2. The Stony Road We Trod: Black Women, Education, and Tenure

   • Talia Esnard, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts

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3. Changing Educational Landscapes: The Challenge of Academic Capitalism

   • Talia Esnard, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts

   Pages 47-65

4. Experiences of Black Women in Academe: A Comparative Analysis

   • Talia Esnard, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts

   Pages 67-98

5. Black Women in Higher Education: Toward Comparative Intersectionality

   • Talia Esnard, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts

   Pages 99-133

6. Comparative Intersectionality: An Intra-Categorical Approach

   • Talia Esnard, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts

   Pages 135-154

7. Black Women in Academe: A Duo-Ethnography

   • Talia Esnard, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts

   Pages 155-213

8. Experiences of Black Women in the Caribbean Academy

   • Talia Esnard, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts

   Pages 215-279

9. Afro-Caribbean Women in the US Academy

   • Talia Esnard, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts

   Pages 281-363

10. Black Women in the US Academy

    • Talia Esnard, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts

    Pages 365-456

11. Still We Rise: Struggle, Strength, Survival, and Success

    • Talia Esnard, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts

    Pages 457-509

12. Back Matter

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This book explores the meanings, experiences, and challenges faced by Black women faculty that are either on the tenure track or have earned tenure. The authors advance the notion of comparative intersectionality to tease through the contextual peculiarities and commonalities that define their identities as Black women and their experiences with tenure and promotion across the two geographical spaces. By so doing, it works through a comparative treatment of existing social (in)equalities, educational (dis)parities, and (in)justices in the promotion and retention of Black women academics. Such interpretative examinations offer important insights into how Black women’s subjugated knowledge and experiences continue to be suppressed within mainstream structures of power and how they are negotiated across contexts.

• empirical examinations
• faculty
• assessment
• postionalities of women in higher education
• duoethnographic approach

“This amazingly relevant study offers a significant advance to a number of existing research fields, among them, Caribbean Migration Studies, Black Women's Studies, Race and Higher Education, and Critical Race Studies. It presents an impressive articulation and theorizing of ‘comparative intersectionality’ using qualitative methodologies, which gives the authors the means to engage a subject often not discussed in relational and situated terms, bringing the Afro-Caribbean and African American experiences to the forefront for close study.  This allows the reader to understand the individualized dramas that Black women academics describe and the larger racialized gender patterns we live every day.” (Carole Boyce Davies, Professor of English and Africana Studies, Cornell University, USA)“This work explores the complexities of the professional and personal lives of Black women in academe in the Caribbean and the United States. Their comparative intersectional approach centers Black women’s lived experiences, resulting in a new analysis of historical and contemporary scholarship, new comparative research, and new approaches to understanding how to support these women in their academic journeys toward tenure and beyond.” (Tamara Bertrand Jones, Associate Professor of Higher Education, Florida State University, USA)

• University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

  Talia Esnard

• University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

  Deirdre Cobb-Roberts

Talia Esnard is Lecturer in the Department of Behavioural Sciences at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago.


Deirdre Cobb-Roberts is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational and Psychological Studies at the University of South Florida, USA.

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