Black Women in Leadership

Dannielle Joy Davis, a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has studied and conducted research in Ghana, South Africa, Egypt, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. She has published over 20 refereed journal articles, book chapters, academic commentaries, volumes, and reviews. Dr. Davis serves as Associate Editor for Learning for Democracy: An International Journal of Thought and Practice which is sponsored by the American Educational Research Association’s Special Interest Group, Democratic Citizenship in Education. Cassandra Chaney earned her B.S. degree in Psychology from Southern University and A&M College and her M.S. and PhD in Human and Community Development (HCD) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(UIUC). In addition to publishing several sole and first-authored manuscripts, she has also presented her research during local, state, and national conferences.

Contents: Linda C. Tillman: Foreword – Dannielle Joy Davis/Cassandra Chaney: Introducing Black Women in Leadership: Their Historical and Contemporary Contributions – Nadia Brown: Black Women’s Legislative Influence – Kaye Thompson-Rogers: Black Women and Leadership in the Church – Virginia Cook Tickles: African American Mothers Leading Daughters – Ezella McPherson: Each One, Teach One: Black Women’s Historical Contributions to Education – Rhonda Hudson/Dannielle Joy Davis: Black Women’s Historical Leadership in African American Home Education – Talia R. Esnard/Laurette Bristol/Launcelot Brown: Black Women as Educational Leaders: Emotional Neutrality and Psychic Duality – Dannielle Joy Davis/Virginia Cook Tickles/Montressa Washington/Ifeoma Amah/Monika Hudson: Sisters of the Academy: Cultivating Leadership and Collaboration among Black Women – Cassandra Chaney: The Leadership of First Lady Michelle Obama: Perceptions of Black Female College Students – Ishwanzya D. Rivers: «If They Don’t Make a Place for Us, We Should Make a Place for Ourselves»: African American Women and Nursing at State Community College – Menah Pratt-Clarke: Higher Education Leadership: One Black Woman’s Journey – Keisha Edwards Tassie/Sonja M. Brown Givens: The «Double Outsider’s» Challenges to Professional Success: Implications for Black Women’s Leadership – Nakisha A. Scott: Working Towards Self-care: The Role of Vicarious Traumatization in Black Female Mental Health Professionals – S. Alease Ferguson/Toni C. King: Honoring the Lateness of the Day: Opportunistic Shifts in the Personal Leadership Sojourns of African American Professional Women at Second Adulthood – Jacqueline Fancher Marn: Overcoming Gender and Race Issues in the Workplace.

«Dannielle Joy Davis and Cassandra Chaney’s ‘Black Women in Leadership’ offers the most insightful, comprehensive picture of Black women’s leadership to date. It is a must-read for all who hope to understand the power and promise of these extraordinary leaders.» (Margaret Grogan, Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy, School of Educational studies, Claremont Graduate University)