Disrupt the “Not-Telling”

Abstract Past narratives of Black women have educational, historical, and literary significance in the decades to come, detailing structural gendered racism in our academic work. These stories are akin to ancestral legacies, such as Harriet Tubman, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Jacobs, and Sojourner Truth, who have shared their struggles and informed generations of Black women striving through a dominant culture. At the core of this book is the intersectional gendered racism that Black women must endure regardless of their home institutional type. The space and the place may have shifted; however, the content of this edited volume still elucidates the inequitable conditions that Black women must transcend in the so-called enlightened higher education spaces (Blackshear & Hollis, 2021). This edited collection moves past assembling a group of stories because the chapters are grounded theoretically and recommend solutions that can assist colleges and universities in creating and maintaining an equitable path to tenure. Further, the narratives, representing a cross-section of disciplines with architecture, education, social work, psychology, and history, can inform other women on what issues they may endure and what potential solutions to adopt while seeking tenure, regardless of the institutional type.