The Chosen We

Rachelle Winkle-Wagner is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the coauthor (with Angela M. Locks) of Diversity and Inclusion on Campus: Supporting Students of Color in College, and the author of The Unchosen We: Black Women and Identity in Higher Education, among other books.

Introduction to the Foreword Author, Dr. Diana Slaughter
Rachelle Winkle-Wagner
Foreword
Diana Slaughter Kotzin
Acknowledgments

Part I. Black Women’s Self-Determination in Education from Here to Eternity

1. The Collective History of Black Women’s Ways of Knowing

2. From the Unchosen Me to the Chosen We: Black Women Elevating Black Women

Part II. From Individualism to Transformative Community at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs)

3. Creating an Oasis Out of Isolation: Relationships That Provided Solace on White Campuses

4. Unapologetically Embracing Blackness: The Importance of Black Student Organizations on Predominantly White Campuses

Part III. From a Collective Legacy of Racial Uplift to Empowered Individual Identity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

5. Blackness-as-Greatness: The Normalization of Nuanced Views of Black Excellence within HBCUs

6. HBCUs as Home and Family: Embracing Intersectional and Nuanced Blackness through Inclusion

Part IV. Embodying Race, Institutional Memory, and the Chosen We

7. From “Unity” to “Isolation”: Comparing Experiences within HBCUs and PWIs

8. In Sickness and Health on Campus: The Health Inferences of College Contexts and Health in 60 Years of Oral History

Appendix A: Putting Black Women at the Center as a White Woman: An Oral History Methodology
Appendix B: Participants Quoted in the Book
Appendix C: Reading List of Other Publications from the Project
Notes
References
Index