Identity Negotiation at Encultured Organizations: An Examination of African-American Women at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

• In Event: Cultural Lessons for Organizational Scholarship

Abstract

By examining the experiences of African-American women at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), this study (a) contributes to organizational identity and identification scholarship in a specific understudied area (African-American organizations); (b) examines the constructions of cultural identity, particularly race/ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status, as organizing principles; and (c) presents an empirical study that moves beyond the binary nature and oppositional ideological components of racial norms and values in encultured organization theoretical framing.

Author

• Cerise Glenn, Purdue University