Repurposing my Status as an Outsider Within: a Black Feminist Scholar-Pracademic’s Journey to Becoming an Invested Indifferent

Abstract

This scholarly personal narrative illuminates the experiences of a Black American woman transitioning from her role as a student affairs professional to a full-time, tenure-track faculty member. The author describes how she leveraged her positionality as a Black feminist scholar-pracademic, vis-à-vis her status as an outsider within academia, to survive and thrive during this transition in the context of predominantly white institutions. Embedded in the epistemology of Collins’ Black feminist thought and drawing from an analysis of various textual and visual data sources, themes are presented to help illuminate an interim persistence strategy that may be useful to Black women at predominantly white institutions (PWIs).

Department(s)

School of Special Education, Leadership and Professional Studies

Document Type

Article

DOI

10.4324/9781003184867-16

Publication Date

1-1-2022

Journal Title

Black Feminist Epistemology Research and Praxis Narratives in and Through the Academy

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