When Will the Joy Come?: Black Women in the Ivory Tower

by Michelle Dionne Thompson, Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, Abena Ampofoa Asare

Book Overview

How do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism, and classism in the academy, one topic has been conspicuously absent from the literature--how Black women academics have found joy in the midst of adversity. Moving beyond questions of resilience, labor for others, and coping, When Will the Joy Come? focuses on the journeys of over thirty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625347367
• ISBN13: 9781625347367
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"