Black Women Faculty With Hip-Hop Onto-Epistemologies Perceptions of Their Presentation in Academia

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 9
  In Roundtable Session: Whose World Is This? Teaching the Truth With Hip-Hop in Higher Education (Table 5)

Abstract

Careful examination of marginalized faculty at four-year degree granting institutions have shown that although Black women far exceed their Black male counterparts in pursuing academic careers, they trail behind them in achieving full professorship (NCES, 2020). Scholarship has been extensive in understanding the cycle of identity development in professional spaces, and how that basis of identity impacts the professional progression of those who maintain the ‘correct identity’ at work (Edwards, Beverly & Alexander-Snow, 2011; Smith et al., 2018). But what of those who position themselves outside of the realms of traditional academic behaviors? This narrative study explores the perception of Black women faculty who center Hip-Hop epistemologies and ontologies of the impacts of their presentation in academia.

Authors

• Monet Harbison, Drexel University
  Presenting Author

• Tryphaena Hooper, Drexel University
  Presenting Author