A Volume in the series: African American Intellectual History
by Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, Abena Ampofoa Asare and Michelle Dionne Thompson
Published by: University of Massachusetts Press (August 2023)
How do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them?
Moving beyond questions of resilience, labor for others, and coping, When Will the Joy Come? focuses on the journeys of over thirty Black women at various stages of their careers.
“The focus on joy makes this collection indispensable among books that consider Black women and women of color in higher education. Readable and engaging, When Will the Joy Come? makes a significant contribution to the intersecting fields of women’s studies, African American studies, and higher education administration.”—Shanna Greene Benjamin, author of Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay
“The contributors to When Will the Joy Come? offer personal perspectives on the multiple meanings of ‘joy’ for Black women working within the academy. A timely, compelling book.”—Carole Boyce Davies, author of Black Women’s Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power
Selections (read by authors)
Introduction : Telling the Story True by Abena Ampofoa Asare, Robin Phylicia Chapdelaine, and Michelle Dionne Thompson (read by Abena Ampofoa Asare)
Chapter 4 : Notes from the Bottom: Black Women Doctoral Students as Academic Mammies, Mules, and Maids in American Academia by Kristian Contreras
Chapter 6 : A View from the Margins of Academia by Michelle Dionne Thompson
Chapter 8 : Crossroads Post-Tenure: Should I Stay or Should I Go? by Heather I. Scott and Nyasha M. GuramatunhuCooper (read by Heather I. Scott)
Chapter 11 : Seeking Corrective Policy and Practice by Tiffany Monique Quash
Chapter 12 : Sail Fast by Annette Kappert
Chapter 14 : The Quotidian Life of Anti-Black Womanness in Ethnic Studies Policy and Procedure by LeAnna T. Luney and Cassandra Gonzalez
Chapter 17 : Dreaming of Elsewhere: Black Women Professors Out of Place by
Abena Ampofoa Asare
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