Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction to the Foreword Author, Dr. Diana Slaughter Kotzin ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Black Women's Self-Determination in Education from Here to Eternity
7. The Collective History of Black Women's Ways of Knowing 11
8. From the Unchosen Me to the Chosen We 29
9. From Individualism to Transformative Community at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs)
10. Creating an Oasis Out of Isolation 67
11. Unapologetically Embracing Blackness 105
12. From a Collective Legacy of Racial Uplift to Empowered Individual Identity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
13. Blackness-as-Greatness 151
14. HBCUs as Home and Family 177
15. Embodying Race, Institutional Memory, and the Chosen We
16. From “Unity” to “Isolation” 213
17. In Sickness and Health on Campus 245
18. Putting Black Women at the Center as a White Woman: An Oral History Methodology 269
19. Participants Quoted in the Book 285
20. Reading List of Other Publications from the Project 291
21. Notes 293
22. References 303
23. Index 333