More Than Colleagues: Disrupting Antiblackness Through Black Women's Workplace Friendships

• In Event: AERA Virtual Poster Session
  In Virtual Poster Session: Committee on Scholars of Color in Education Virtual Poster Session

Abstract

Anti-Blackness in the academy has the potential to negatively impact relationships between Black Women, which can ultimately influence Black Women’s retention and career advancement. Through a conceptual framework combining workplace friendships (Sias & Cahill, 1998), Black feminist thought (Collins, 2000), and critical race theory (Solórzano & Yosso, 2001), the authors first interrogate how anti-Blackness operates to harm Black Women’s workplace relationships, then illuminate how Black Women student affairs administrators disrupt anti-Blackness and resist toxicity and systemic oppression by cultivating and sustaining positive Black Women’s workplace friendships. Black Women student affairs administrators and those who supervise, serve with, support and advocate for them will gain knowledge to help bolster Black Women student affairs administrators’ retention and career advancement.

Authors

• Terra N Hall, Pepperdine University
  Presenting Author

• Terri Massie-Burrell, Johns Hopkins University
  Presenting Author