Black Sisterhood Created, Maintained, and Protected at an Anti-Black Institution

Shining the light: Black women thriving in graduate school

“…Phelps‐Ward (2020) developed an emancipatory research counter‐space for Black graduate students providing community and support for the development of a critical praxis and socialization to academia. The benefits of these spaces for Black women are invaluable to their ability to thrive in historically hostile and unwelcoming environments such as predominantly white post‐secondary institutions and/or male‐dominated disciplines (Gaskew et al., 2022; Miles Nash et al., 2022).…”