“Yet with A Steady Beat”: Advocating Historically Black Colleges and Universities as Black Women in the Age of Trump’s America

Collectively, we write this essay from our respective positions as a current Historically Black College and University (HBCU) student, an HBCU alumna and graduate researcher, and an HBCU alumna, professor, and administrator. As Black women committed to racial equity and the intersectional study of h...

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Published in:Women, gender, and families of color gender, and families of color, 2018-03, Vol.6 (1), p.12-17
Main Authors: Elliott, Kayla C., Gregory, Brittany-Rae, deGregory, Crystal A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African American universities and colleges
African American women
Analysis
Black people
Black students
College campuses
College students
Colleges & universities
Du Bois, W E B (1868-1963)
Executive orders
Fairness
Gender Studies
Higher education
Historically Black Colleges & Universities
Historically black colleges and universities
Intersectionality
Masculinity
Patriarchy
Political aspects
President of the United States
Race
Racial Studies
Racism
Sexism
Social aspects
Social policy
Supreme courts
Trump, Donald
Trump, Donald J
White supremacy
Women
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Summary:Collectively, we write this essay from our respective positions as a current Historically Black College and University (HBCU) student, an HBCU alumna and graduate researcher, and an HBCU alumna, professor, and administrator. As Black women committed to racial equity and the intersectional study of higher education, we evoke the words of United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who, in the consequential 1992 United States v. Fordice ruling, began his concurring opinion by evoking the words of Fisk University alumnus and noted sociologist W E. B. Du Bois: "We must rally to the defense of our schools. We must repudiate this unbearable assumption of the right to kill institutions unless they conform to one narrow standard."
ISSN:2326-0939
2326-0947
DOI:10.5406/womgenfamcol.6.1.0012