African American female professors’ strategies for successful attainment of tenure and promotion at predominately White institutions: It can happen

Education, Citizenship and Social Justice

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 133-151

  Jones, Brandolyn ^a   Hwang, Eunjin ^a   Bustamante, Rebecca M ^a  

^a SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black feminist thought (BFT); female faculty; relational cultural theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930975911     PISSN: 17461979     EISSN: 17461987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1746197915583934     Document Type: Article

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