Emancipation as Unfinished Business: Portraits of Black Women Academics in Higher Education Across the Diaspora

• In Event: Departure and Mattering Among Black Women Academics

Abstract

The experiences of Black women academics in former colonies and colonialist countries can be described as multidimensional, yet uniquely tied to the state of coloniality. The literature points to continuous issues within the former British and Dutch Caribbean as well as England and the Netherlands, whereby Black women academics are forced to navigate intersectional subordination. Our qualitative analysis applies intersectionality methodology to better understand Black women academics’ lived experiences at the intersections of race, gender, and state of coloniality in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the Dutch and Anglophone Caribbean. This comparative research study expands on retention strategies to address intersectional erasure of Black women academics, and build a cadre of intersectional interventions, policies and practices to support their success

Authors

• Saran Stewart, University of Connecticut
  Presenting Author

• Chayla Haynes Davison, Texas A&M University
  Presenting Author