Black and Smart

Adrianne Musu Davis

ISBN 10: 1978832370 / ISBN 13: 9781978832374

Published by Rutgers University Press, US, 2023

About this Item

Even academically talented students face challenges in college. For high-achieving Black women, their racial, gender, and academic identities intensify those issues. Inside the classroom, they are spotlighted and feel forced to be representatives for their identity groups. In campus life, they are isolated and face microaggressions from peers. Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework, Davis addresses the significance of the various identities of high-achieving Black women in college individually and collectively, revealing the ways institutional oppression functions at historically white institutions and in social interactions on and off campus. Based on interviews with collegiate Black women in honors communities, Black and Smart analyzes the experiences of academically talented Black undergraduate women navigating their social and academic lives at urban historically white institutions and offers strategies for creating more inclusive academic and social environments for talented undergraduates.

Seller Inventory # LU-9781978832374

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Black and Smart
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press, US
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1978832370
• ISBN 13: 9781978832374
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 5W x 0.6H x 8D inches 5 inches width by 0.6 inches height by 8 inches depth
• Weight: 32 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Even academically talented students face challenges in college. For high-achieving Black women, their racial, gender, and academic identities intensify those issues. Inside the classroom, they are spotlighted and feel forced to be representatives for their identity groups. In campus life, they are isolated and face microaggressions from peers. Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework, Davis addresses the significance of the various identities of high-achieving Black women in college individually and collectively, revealing the ways institutional oppression functions at historically white institutions and in social interactions on and off campus. Based on interviews with collegiate Black women in honors communities, Black and Smart analyzes the experiences of academically talented Black undergraduate women navigating their social and academic lives at urban historically white institutions and offers strategies for creating more inclusive academic and social environments for talented undergraduates.
 

About the Author

ADRIANNE MUSU DAVIS is an educational consultant and the administrative dean/director of the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.