Introduction. Telling the story true / Abena Ampofoa Asare, Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine and Michelle Dionne Thompson
We are the ones who make the space for the next Black woman to get to the top / Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine
No easy road : my journey from Ph.D. To tenure-track employment / Felice F. Knight
"Now I'm choosing life, yo" : neo-soul music and poetry as Black women's joy work in graduate school and the academic job search / Ashley D. Clemons
Notes from the bottom : Black women doctoral students as academic mules, mammies, and maids in American academia / Kristian Contreras
"Getting a Ph.D. Will make ya or break ya" : surviving the make ya in the ivory tower / Kimberly Stanley
A view from the margins of academia / Michelle Dionne Thompson
Taking one for the team? : Reconciling individual ambition and the greater good / Littisha A. Bates and Whitney Gaskins
Crossroads post tenure : should I stay or should I go? / Heather I. Scott and Nyasha M. GuramatunhuCooper
Tokenization in the era of performative wokeness : lessons from the tenure track / M. Smith
Navigating the ivory tower : a community approach / Paula W. White, Eva M. Gibson, and Jessica A. Fripp
Seeking corrective policy and practice / Tiffany Monique Quash
Sail fast / Annette Kappert
Backs of steel : the experience of Black women leaders in contemporary academia / Prisca Anuforo, Elizabeth Locke, Myra Robinson, and Christine Thorpe
The quotidian life of anti-Black woman-ness in ethnic studies policy and procedure / LeAnna T. Luney & Cassandra Gonzalez
Marronage in the ivory tower / Cécile Accilien
Four Black German women : on being othered, anger at whiteness, practicing joy, and finding belonging in solitude / Anonymous
Dreaming of elsewhere : Black women professors out of place / Abena Ampofoa Asare.