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Brown, Ruth N. Brown, Ruth N. Zerai, Assata Mendenhall, Ruby Dixson, Adrienne King, Tanisha 2019-08-23T19:55:39Z 2019-08-23T19:55:39Z 2019-04-17 2019-05 Using auto-ethnography, this dissertation shares personal experiences through self-reflection of the use of the Strong Black Woman and Black Superwoman archetypes. This dissertation also uses focus groups to obtain a representative of voices of Black women’s experiences at a large Midwestern predominantly white institution. The work explores the relevance of racial and gender microaggressions to the phenomena of the Strong Black Woman (SBW) or Black Superwoman (BSW) archetypes. Within traditional literature, unique experiences of Black women have been lacking, specifically in terms of microaggressions. Moreover, Black women’s experiences at predominantly white institutions (PWI) have been documented as being unwelcoming, where Black women don’t feel a sense of belonging. In turn, the archetypes of SBW or BSW have become a response to cope and/or resist instances of subtle racism. As such, the primary goal of this dissertation is to explore the experiences Black female students have at one particular predominately white campus in order to enhance our understanding of the use of SBW and BSW. Findings indicate that the archetypes SBW and BSW are not interchangeable, contrary to previous literature. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2019-08-22 without embargo terms The student, Tanisha King, accepted the attached license on 2019-04-16 at 12:45. The student, Tanisha King, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-04-16 at 12:56. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-04-17 at 08:54. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13673 on 2019-08-22 at 14:44:04 Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T19:55:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 KING-DISSERTATION-2019.pdf: 850631 bytes, checksum: d4836af45bbc29cf0e21cf7524fea074 (MD5) Tanisha_King-Taylor_Women_s_March_Speech.pdf: 29811 bytes, checksum: 3885d1d9e6c8fda0c94963e5550fe1d9 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4209 bytes, checksum: 04871017232b87779b0ed1107352334a (MD5) PROQUEST_LICENSE.txt: 4555 bytes, checksum: ea1476270fcb9af1cae905a832e911d5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2019-04-17 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/104844 en © 2019 Tanisha King-Taylor strong Black woman, Black superwoman, gendered racism, microaggressions Redefining the Black superwoman: Racial and gender microaggressions at predominantly white institutions text text Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp Educational Policy Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.