African-Born Women Faculty in the United States: Lives in Contradiction

Hardcover
from $0.00

Author: Rosaire lfeyinwa Ifedi

ISBN-10: 0773451145

ISBN-13: 9780773451148

Category: Education

Search in google:

Preface Frank W. Hale, Jr. Hale, Frank W., Jr.I Introduction 1II Review of Literature 17Challenges in the Ivory Tower: Structural & Contextual 18Increasing Presence of Black Women; Diminishing Quality 29Same Challenges; Different Responses: Success in Academia 38Developing Curricular Changes and Alternative Paradigms 39Developing Coping Mechanisms 40Experiences Shared with Foreign Minority Women Faculty 41Experiences Unique to African-born Women Faculty 49III Methodology: A Tapestry of Theoretical Frameworks 63Rationale for Conducting Qualitative Research 64Rationale for Conducting a Phenomenological Study 67A Tapestry of Theoretical Frameworks 73Data Collection Procedures 86Data Analysis 88Trustworthiness 92The Multiple Roles of the Researcher 94Ethical Concerns 97Ethical Concern with Words 98IV Results of Data Analysis: The Identity, Work, and Voice of African-born Women Faculty 101Who They Are: Issues of Identity 107What They Do: Research, Teaching, and Service 130What They Say (Voice) 146Racism 147Difference 152Gender 155The Ivory Tower 157Counter-Stories 160V Discussion, Implications, Suggestions 167Difference Matters: Racialization 168Education Matters: Scholarship Revisited -The Intersection of Educatlon, Culture, and Scholarship 176Relationships Matter 185Lives of Contradiction 189References 203Bibliography 219Appendices 221Index 233