Black Women Negotiate Systemic Oppression in Undergraduate Engineering and Mathematics Disciplines

• In Event: Disrupting Deficit Perspectives and Ideologies in Mathematics Education

Abstract

In this study I sought to understand the undergraduate experiences of Black women as undergraduate engineering and mathematics majors and identify factors that promote their academic persistence and overall well-being. I implemented sista circle methodology, an ethnographic method that embodies a gender specific research methodology. In the findings I present the normalized policies and practices that reproduced an unwelcoming academic climate and specifically through, access to caring professors.

Author

• Jessica Alyce Wilson, Hondros College of Nursing
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