Black Women in the Academy: Promises and Perils

From: The Journal of Negro Education | Date: October 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Black Women in the Academy: Promises and Perils, edited by Lois Benjamin. Gainesville, FL: Florida University Press, 1997. 424 pp. $49.95, cloth.

Reviewed by Marilyn Mobley McKenzie, Department of English, George Mason University.

For the most part, discourse about the academy in the past decade has centered around the cultural wars, ethnic studies programs, issues of canon and curriculum, and the assault on affirmative action and other race-based remedies. Yet there has always been another level of concurrent discourse. While some scholars are finally interrogating the academy as a ...

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