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Experiences of Black Women in Academe: A Comparative Analysis

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Despite a long history of Black women in academe across both contexts, we contend that they continue to be underrepresented at the higher echelons of academe and face a myriad of intersecting yet complex challenges that structure their roads to tenure and promotion. In grounding our claim, we engaged in an extensive meta-synthesis of the literature around Black women in academe. We started this meta-synthesis with a search for keywords around Black women in academe, promotion, and tenure for Black scholars, Black women faculty, marginalization of Black women in academe and Black women in higher education.

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Esnard, T., Cobb-Roberts, D. (2018). Experiences of Black Women in Academe: A Comparative Analysis. In: Black Women, Academe, and the Tenure Process in the United States and the Caribbean. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89686-1_3

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