The Black Feminist Coup : Black Women's Lived Experiences in White Supremacist Feminist Academic Spaces

The Black Feminist Coup: Black Women's Lived Experiences in White Supremacist Feminist Academic Spaces is a collective narrative of how three Black women faculty at a large Midwestern PWI, and two of their former students and allies build alliances to collaboratively disrupt white supremacist feminist spaces. Themes of what it means to be a fugitive, free, and feminist inform how we envision the future of Black women's labor in the academy. More specifically, this project explores intersecting narratives of how three Black women faculty fled a racist and microaggressive gender and women's studies department, following the start of the COVID 19 pandemic and the 2020 summer of racial unrest, and moved to an institute that houses African American and African studies. Their stories of misogynoir reflect a brutal irony that GWS departments expect Black women to further all women's interests while impeding Black women's own ability to thrive. This work demands that institutions bear responsibility in providing Black women with an environment to thrive and dream of new possibilities and opportunities to develop curricula and initiatives that center Black lives with priority. Bridging at the intersections of feminism, Black Studies, and higher education, this project surveys concepts of survival, trauma, pain and healing to offer future possibilities for dismantling and challenging systems of white supremacy in the academy--

Author: Jennifer L. Richardson

Publisher: NA

Publication Date: Feb 29, 2024

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 1636677681

ISBN-13: 9781636677682