Elevating Marginalized Voices in Academe

Emerald Templeton, EdD is a community college administrator and assistant professor with a background in higher education, student affairs, and counseling student development. Her research interests are emerging in two areas of work: the logic of valuing diversity and Black women in higher education. Bridget H. Love, EdD is an administrator in a local government agency, and a community college professor with a background in government, community corrections and higher education. Her cross-disciplinary research interests center on the questions, "Who is telling the story? and What is being said?, as a way to curate and custodian the experiences of Black women. Onda Johnson, EdD is a government administrator in public policy for k-12 education. Johnson spent her career serving youth in institutional and educational settings. Her research interests span early childhood development and leadership in Pre-k-12 learning environments and the derivatives of social justice in educational spaces.

Foreword: On Belonging to Liberation; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION ; PART I: Developing A Scholarly Identity; One: Who’s the scholar?; Two: Doubt: The Uninvited Educator; Three: The last dance: How I learned to Stop Shuckin’ and Jivin’; Four: Finding an Academic Voice in a Place of Isolation; Five: They Called Diversity a Nuisance Variable; Six: Finding My Voice, Encouraging Myself, and Calling Out Gendered Racism: A Black Feminist Graduate Student’s Note on How to Thrive Within the Academy; Seven: I Am Exactly Where I Need To Be; Eight: A Twenty-Nine Year Journey Back to Radical Scholarship; Nine: A Cautionary Tale; PART II: Curating Communities; Ten: The Journey; Eleven: Fitting In When You Stand Out; Twelve: Empowered and Equipped: What My Community Gave Me; Thirteen: A Syncopated Scholarly Journey: The Rhythm and Rhyme to Keep On Moving; Fourteen: Writing to the Choir: The Imperative of Rest for Women of Color PhD Students; Fifteen: Finding My People and My People Finding Me; Sixteen: Mothers in My Academic Village; Seventeen: Dancing between Two Worlds; PART III: Race, Space, and Time; Eighteen: Unmasking Academia for Future Generations; Nineteen: Finding Your Place: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome; Twenty: Who Belongs in Academia?; Twenty One: An EdD in a PhD World: Developing Scholarly Identity in a World that may not Always Recognize you as Legitimate; Twenty -Two: Hope as Praxis, Pedagogy and Purpose: Using a Critical Post Traumatic Growth a Framework to Navigate Traumatic Environments