TY - JOUR
T1 - Blackwomen* Academics as Contemporary Anti-Slavery Rebels
T2 - Breachers of the Intersecting Contract in Tenure Denial Lawsuits
AU - Ward, La Wanda
AU - Haynes, Chayla
AU - Petty, Raya
AU - Mackie, Tierra Walters
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 American Educational Studies Association.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - White men who enslaved people of African descent and wrote the U.S. Constitution never imagined Blackwomen as persons who would become educated citizens. Acknowledgments and legal interpretations to affirm Blackwomen’s personhood are absent from the romanticized document. We argue that in academia the intersecting contract is imposed on Blackwomen’s bodies when their worth, qualifications, and potential are overly scrutinized, and they experience epistemic and physical violence within PWIs and in society writ large. The intersecting contract, through plantation politics, further helps to explain why Blackwomen academics who are seeking tenure are expected to overextend themselves by doing extra work without fair compensation. We use intersectionality methodology in our application of Angela Davis’ framework, Blackwomen as contemporary anti-slavery rebels, to illuminate how three Blackwomen academics breach the intersecting contract that undergirds discriminatory practices enacted by institutional actors to deprive them of tenure and promotion and trample on their dignity. We conclude by inviting Blackwomen academics to embody a maroon logic for rest, healing, and protection as PWIs cannot be coconspirators in our liberation.
AB - White men who enslaved people of African descent and wrote the U.S. Constitution never imagined Blackwomen as persons who would become educated citizens. Acknowledgments and legal interpretations to affirm Blackwomen’s personhood are absent from the romanticized document. We argue that in academia the intersecting contract is imposed on Blackwomen’s bodies when their worth, qualifications, and potential are overly scrutinized, and they experience epistemic and physical violence within PWIs and in society writ large. The intersecting contract, through plantation politics, further helps to explain why Blackwomen academics who are seeking tenure are expected to overextend themselves by doing extra work without fair compensation. We use intersectionality methodology in our application of Angela Davis’ framework, Blackwomen as contemporary anti-slavery rebels, to illuminate how three Blackwomen academics breach the intersecting contract that undergirds discriminatory practices enacted by institutional actors to deprive them of tenure and promotion and trample on their dignity. We conclude by inviting Blackwomen academics to embody a maroon logic for rest, healing, and protection as PWIs cannot be coconspirators in our liberation.
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U2 - 10.1080/00131946.2023.2194537
DO - 10.1080/00131946.2023.2194537
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85160594988
SN - 0013-1946
VL - 59
SP - 403
EP - 419
JO - Educational Studies - AESA
JF - Educational Studies - AESA
IS - 4
ER -