Free Download Dr. Adrianne Musu Davis Ph.D, "Black and Smart: How Black High-Achieving Women Experience College "
English | ISBN: 1978832389 | 2023 | 174 pages | PDF | 778 KB
Even academically talented students face challenges in college. For high-achieving Black women, their racial, gender, and academic identities intensify those issues. Inside the classroom, they are spotlighted and feel forced to be representatives for their identity groups. In campus life, they are isolated and face microaggressions from peers. Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework, Davis addresses the significance of the various identities of high-achieving Black women in college individually and collectively, revealing the ways institutional oppression functions at historically white institutions and in social interactions on and off campus. Based on interviews with collegiate Black women in honors communities,