Anthology of Black Females Attending/Teaching at a Top 50 Predominantly White USA Institutions

Anthology of Black Females Attending/Teaching at a Top 50 Predominantly White USA Institutions

Publication Date:	2006-02-01 (Archive)
Date Submitted:	2005-09-17
Announcement ID:	147810

Black female narratives/essays needed for an anthology that focuses on black identified females attending/teaching or have attended/taught at a Top 50 PWI who have narratives or critical essays about: being a person with a physical handicap, navigating through racism, homophobia, and/or sexism. Topics can include but aren't limited to:

1. White privilege
2. Experiencing "Tokenism"
3. Heterosexim/homophobia
4. Experiencing that you're intellectual capability is/was always questioned by male or White students and faculty.
5. Double-Consciousness
6. Code-switching
7. Being a Black woman who was born and raised outside of USA and experiences USA-Centric biased comments/practices from US Nationals.
8. Using black female writer's works as a support base to make it through college (bell hooks, June Jordan, Angela Davis, etc).

Please send your essays and narratives via postal mail or email as a Microsoft Word or Appleworks document. Please send up to 20 pp, double spaced with 1 inch margins. Please send a short bio about yourself as well.

Breeze Harper
122 Oxford St., Apt 5
Cambridge, MA 02140
617 877 2096
Email: harper2@fas.harvard.edu

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