Date of Award
2022
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Organizational Unit
Morgridge College of Education, Higher Education
First Advisor
Cecilia M. Orphan
Second Advisor
Sarah S. Hurtado
Third Advisor
Marvette C. Lacy
Fourth Advisor
Apryl A. Alexander
Keywords
Black feminist theory, Black women housing professionals, Gendered racism, Predominantly white institutions, Resilience, Sista Circle methodology
Abstract
Between 1999 and 2018, there was an 11% decrease in Black women staff and administrators at post-secondary institutions. This study utilized Black Feminist Thought and Sista Circle Methodology to uncover how Black women reflected on experiences of and coped with gendered racism at PWIs. Participants offered reflections on their relationships with Black women and men, white men and women, and students. Black women shared their reflections with discrimination and a deceptive institutional culture. Black women also discussed utilizing several coping strategies such as hyper-awareness, hypervigilance, enacting personal and professional boundaries, avoiding hypervisibility and engaging in personal and familial connections with the greater Black community. Lastly, Black women discussed utilizing resilience as an unconscious and omnipresent coping strategy. I offer several recommendations encouraging institutions to enact system change and calling for those that harm Black women, specifically Black men, and white women, to reconsider the hypocrisy in their support of Black women. I present a narrative of critical pessimism relating to institutional inaction regarding the mistreatment of Black women housing professionals at predominantly white institutions.
Publication Statement
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Rights Holder
Shaniquè Jazmine Broom
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
File Format
application/pdf
Language
en
File Size
190 pgs
Recommended Citation
Broom, Shaniquè Jazmine, "“Damned if Ya Do, Damned if Ya Don’t”: A Critical Narrative Inquiry Exploring the Gendered Racism Experienced by Black Women Housing Professionals in Higher Education" (2022). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2043.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/2043
Copyright date
2022
Discipline
Higher education