Black Doctoral Students’ Experiences in Academia is a vital and timely anthology that brings together the powerful narratives of Black doctoral students and graduates who have navigated and challenged academic systems. These stories speak not only to struggle, but also to joy, care, community, and self-definition. From the first steps into graduate programs to moments of resistance, reclamation, and transformation, the contributors reveal what it means to create belonging, build power, and thrive. This book seeks to provide a platform for these scholars to share their insights and advocate for systemic changes within the often exclusionary environments of higher education. This book is an essential read for scholars, educators, and administrators committed to fostering inclusive and supportive environments within higher education.
Black Doctoral Students’ Experiences in Academia is a vital and timely anthology that brings together the powerful narratives of Black doctoral students and graduates who have navigated and challenged academic systems. These stories speak not only to struggle, but also to joy, care, community, and self-definition.
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This book is a testament to everyday resistance; the quiet, powerful acts of Black scholars who choose to stay, create, and reimagine spaces that were never meant for them. It invites the academy to see resistance not as defiance, but as devotion to truth, to community, and to collective liberation.
Ashley Gaddy Robbins, Community Reformer, USA
During a time where Black doctoral students are often being overlooked in academia, this book provides a place for them to feel seen, heard, and hopeful for whats to come in their journeys.This book should be a required reading for all Black doctoral students as they embark on their journey.
Kalyn Coghill, Award-winning Educator and Activist, USA
a groundbreaking text and mirror into the lives of Black doctoral students as they seek to earn their terminal degreesa guide for other Black doctoral students, providing insights on how to not just enter a program, but carve out a position as a contributing member of the research ecosystem.
From the Foreword by Ramon B. Goings, Director and Associate Professor, Language, Literacy, and Culture PhD Program, University of Maryland, USA
Introduction: Narratives of Collective Responsibility, Community, and
Care Part I: Before We Belonged Entry, Identity, and Institutional
Dissonance
1. The Neglected Scholar: Being Black, First-Generation, and a
Doctoral Student
2. From the AUC to Appalachian Elegy: A Black Girls Guide
to Adjusting to a Predominantly White Institution (PWI)
3. Finding Healing
Amidst the Chaos: A Black Feminist Autoethnography of Surviving a
Predominately White Institution
4. The Fear of Complacency: A Continuous
Struggle for Black Scholars Part II: Building and Becoming Joy, Community,
and Collective Action
5. Black Mothers in Pursuit of the Ph.D.: Redefining
Success Beyond Academic Metrics
6. Who Gon Save Us: Highlighting the
Experiences of Black Women in Higher Education Through Collaborative
Autoethnography
7. Black in Bloom: Planting Seeds for Community Growth, and
Success Part III: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Academy
8. Digital
Tribalism, Fictive Kinship, and Reclamation in Higher Education
9. To all the
Academic Aunties, Uncles, and Cousins: Open Letters from a Black Doctoral
Student to Their Fictive Kin
10. Dialogue Between the Editors
DeLisha Tapscott is the co-founder of Black Girl Narrative and a storyteller and scholar whose work explores race, gender, digital culture, and the lived experiences of Black women. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Purdue University and Southern New Hampshire University, USA.
Nardos Ghebreab is the co-founder of Black Girl Narrative and a scholar-practitioner whose work examines race, racism, and Black teachers preparation and development in U.S. schooling.
