Promoting Mental Wellness among Black Faculty: Strategies for Coping

Sparkman-Key, Narketta; Tarver, Shuntay Z.

doi:10.1017/9781009064668.008

We're Not OK 2022

DOI: 10.1017/9781009064668.008

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Promoting Mental Wellness among Black Faculty: Strategies for Coping

Narketta Sparkman-Key¹,

Shuntay Z. Tarver²

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Black Women Faculty Also Matter

Allie-Turco

2023

Stabilizing and Empowering Women in Higher Education

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The upheavals caused by the COVID-19 pandemic continue to affect the lives of faculty across the globe. Inasmuch as the pandemic brought profound levels of anxiety, loss, and turmoil, it also created an opportunity to address ineffective and unjust policies in academia. For Black women academics, reflections on the pandemic do not linger on the realignment, reinvention, and reinvigoration of their professional lives because alignment, invention, and invigoration as fully accepted peers in the academy have never existed for them. Instead, the opportunity now is for Black women faculty to step into a space that has never been fully accessible to them as professionals. The pandemic provided an opportunity to recognize pervasive and systemic inequalities for minoritized individuals and communities that have always been reflected in the academy and to create an environment of inclusion and empowerment for everyone. Reimagining academia as an inclusive environment means intentionally challenging racial stereotypes and promoting spaces where Black women faculty feel included and connected.

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Black Women Faculty Also Matter

Allie-Turco

2023

Stabilizing and Empowering Women in Higher Education

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Community Connectedness as a Tool for Black Women to Attain Work-Life Balance in Academia

Culver,

Martin,

Smith

et al. 2024

Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development

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Historically, the narratives of Black women faculty in the academy have been ones of consistent treacherous journeys marked by othering, exclusion, exploitation of labor, discrimination, and, at times, even violence. Being a faculty member in the ivory tower would not be considered one of the “Black jobs” in the eyes of racist politicians and policymakers in American society. These historical unjust practices have one common goal, to prevent upward mobility within the Black community. Navigating these unsafe terrains of Academia while attending to personal obligations can feel impossible for Black women faculty. Nonetheless, Black women continue to show their resilience in how they have come to create safe communities to survive and thrive. In this chapter, five Black women faculty share insights on lessons learned during their journey as professors in the academe and strategies for overcoming challenges and succeeding in attaining work-life balance.

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