Date Approved
6-26-2023
Embargo Period
6-26-2025
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
Educational Services and Leadership
College
College of Education
Advisor
Raquel Wright-Mair, Ph.D. & Shelley Zion, Ph.D.
Committee Member 1
Monika Williams Shealey, Ph.D.
Keywords
African American women faculty, Afro-Caribbean women faculty, Black Diaspora in U.S., Black women in the Academy, Caribbean American women faculty, Interethnic/Intraracial Relationships
Subject(s)
Women educators; Women, Black
Disciplines
Educational Leadership | Higher Education
Abstract
This study focuses on Black diasporic women faculty’s framings of themselves and their experiences and roles in the U.S. academy, as well as the dynamics among Afro-Caribbean women faculty, Black Caribbean American women faculty, and African American women faculty, bringing to light the ways in which whiteness has sub/un/consciously mediated their relationships. Using Intersectionality as a framework and Critical Narrative Inquiry (i.e., blurring biographical and arts-informed narrative inquiry) as a methodological approach, 14 found poems, highlighting various resonant portions of collaborators’ stories, were included as findings. Seven perceptions that Black diasporic women faculty hold of each other were also identified: a) perceived as similar and bonded, b) perceived as allies, c) perceived as under immense pressure, d) perceived as wounded by racism, e) perceived as appropriately cautious, f) perceived as wise, and g) perceived as “willing to dance”. Additionally, three natures of whiteness, namely its devious, systemic, and selective natures, lurking in the academy and shaping the dynamics among Black diasporic women faculty, were unveiled. The manuscript concludes with implications for Black diasporic women faculty, praxes, and research.
Recommended Citation
Peters, Candice, "STRATIFIED BLACKNESS: EXAMINING THE INTERETHNIC DYNAMICS BETWEEN BLACK CARIBBEAN-BORN AND BLACK U.S.-BORN WOMEN FACULTY IN THE U.S. ACADEMY" (2023). Theses and Dissertations. 3138.
https://rdw.rowan.edu/etd/3138
