Psychological Tight Spaces: One Black Feminist Scholar's Journey into Academia - Ricks, Shawn Arango
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This book chronicles one Black feminist's attempt to "make sense" of how Black Feminist Scholars negotiate power, navigate oppression, and resist domination in academia. The author examines her experiences with a backdrop of Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Feminism, and Critical Discourse Analysis, and by utilizing a secondary and textual analysis of Sister Outsider (2007) by Audre Lorde, and Teaching to Transgress (1994) by bell hooks. The author generates a framework for Black Women to successfully negotiate their tight spaces within hegemonic institutions of domination-the academy.…mehr

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This book chronicles one Black feminist's attempt to "make sense" of how Black Feminist Scholars negotiate power, navigate oppression, and resist domination in academia. The author examines her experiences with a backdrop of Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Feminism, and Critical Discourse Analysis, and by utilizing a secondary and textual analysis of Sister Outsider (2007) by Audre Lorde, and Teaching to Transgress (1994) by bell hooks. The author generates a framework for Black Women to successfully negotiate their tight spaces within hegemonic institutions of domination-the academy. Additionally this book attempts to provide transformational knowledge as a roadmap for other Black women in the academy as they journey along their path of the unfamiliar.
Autorenporträt
Dr. Shawn Arango Ricks is an Associate Professor of Rehabilitation and Human Services, and Chair of the Human Service Studies Department at Winston-Salem State University, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Dr. Ricks is past-president of the Southern Organization for Human Services (SOHS) and an appointed member of the North Carolina Practice Improvement Collaborative. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Cultural Studies, and her Masters and Bachelor degrees from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Dr. Ricks has been an invited speaker and facilitator in the areas of diversity, equity and social justice for numerous non-profit agencies. She has published extensively on issues of social justice and diversity. Her research interests include the psychosocial development of Black women in the academia and raising Black children in "post-racial" America. Dr. Ricks is a Human Services Board Certified Practitioner and a Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist Associate. Dr. Ricks is the founder of ASE Leadership Institute which seeks to support Black girls and women through leadership development.