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A VIEW FROM THE ACADEMIC EDGE: One Black Woman Who is Dancing as Fast as She Can

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2007

Kathryn Waddell Takara
Kathryn Waddell Takara
Affiliation:
Interdisciplinary Studies Program, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
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Few Black women are tenured faculty in academia, and the statistics are quite stunning. The Almanac of the Chronicle of Higher Education (2004–2005) shows that, in 2001, 1% of all faculty at the rank of professor were Black females—only 5% of all females at that rank. The numbers are only slightly better for the rank of associate professor, the only other rank where one is likely to be tenured. Of all faculty at the associate professor level, only 2% are Black women; among women at that rank, only 6% are Black. Of assistant professors, 3% are Black females (7.5% of all female faculty at that rank); Black females comprise 8% of female instructors (4% of all faculty at that rank); and 3% of lecturers (5% of all female lecturers).

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STATE OF THE DISCOURSE SYMPOSIUM: THE UNIQUE SITUATION OF BLACK WOMEN
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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , September 2006 , pp. 463 - 470
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© 2006 W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research

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