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- Title
To Talk or Not to Talk, Should that Be the Question? How the Double Jeopardy of Race and Nationality Influence My Experiences in Academia.
- Authors
Gordon, Nickesia S.
- Abstract
The author discusses the complexities of representation namely her Afro Caribbean/"third" world background and her historically African-American university (HBCU) affiliation. She cites the assumption of those she meet in academia that she intrinsically align her personal politics with that of the African American community and notes how her academic identity marked by her first and third world educational experiences as a Caribbean person of color in the U.S. positions her between the borders of insider/outsider. She indicates that her experiences in academia taught her that there is no coherent self that can be articulated and "to be or not to be" is a freedom to construct and reconfigure selves as experiences change.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AFRICAN American community college students; HISTORICALLY Black colleges &; universities; CARIBBEAN people; EDUCATION of African American women; DEVELOPING countries
- Publication
Women & Language, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 2, p81
- ISSN
8755-4550
- Publication type
Article