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Voices in the Desert: Black Women Faculty in the American Southwest

Voices in the Desert: Black Women Faculty in the American Southwest

Xeturah M. Woodley
Copyright: © 2019 |Volume: 4 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 13
ISSN: 2379-7363|EISSN: 2379-7355|EISBN13: 9781522568599|DOI: 10.4018/IJBIDE.2019070101
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Woodley, Xeturah M. "Voices in the Desert: Black Women Faculty in the American Southwest." IJBIDE vol.4, no.2 2019: pp.1-13. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJBIDE.2019070101

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Woodley, X. M. (2019). Voices in the Desert: Black Women Faculty in the American Southwest. International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities in Education (IJBIDE), 4(2), 1-13. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJBIDE.2019070101

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Woodley, Xeturah M. "Voices in the Desert: Black Women Faculty in the American Southwest," International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities in Education (IJBIDE) 4, no.2: 1-13. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJBIDE.2019070101

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Abstract

The experiences of Black women educators are important, and yet their personal and professional experiences are rarely included as part of the faculty narrative at most North American higher education institutions. The continued normalization of White Supremacy and androcentricity, within North American higher education, maintain systems of oppression that perpetuate the systematic marginalization of Black women within the faculty ranks. The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of Black women educators in New Mexico's higher education institutions. With a grounding in Black Womanist and Critical Race Theories, this qualitative research study employed snowball sampling as a means to engage ten Black women faculty members, via semi-structured interviews, in critical inquiry about their professional experiences with higher education. Study participants testified about experiences with microaggressions, discrimination, and racial battle fatigue as well as feeling intellectual, campus, and community isolation.