D.I.V.A. Diaries

The Road to the Ph.D. and Stories of Black Women Who Have Endured

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• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781453915219
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Adult Education

The Distinguished, Intellectual, Virtuous, Academic Sistas (D.I.V.A.S.) is a group of Black women who formed a bond with one another as doctoral students as a means of support on their journey through the academy. The acronym defines the women individually and as an entire group. This anthology can be used as a practical, student-centered sourcebook for Black female doctoral candidates. By providing narratives about the importance of race, class, culture, religion, socioeconomics, and nationality, this book aims to encourage more Black women to pursue a terminal degree and to continue professional development throughout their careers. It provides readers with strategies to sustain themselves while in a graduate program, on the job market, and during the tenure-earning process. Contributors are full of passion as they encourage one another while bringing the reader into their realm of the academic battlefield.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Inception of the DIVA Collective (Cherrel Miller Dyce, Toni Milton Williams, and Torry Reynolds)
• Meditations and Deliberations on DIVAS (Toni Milton Williams and Cherrel Miller Dyce)
• Chapter 1. Standing in the Gap as the Academic Intercessor (Cherrel Miller Dyce)
• Chapter 2. Putting on the Garment of Theory: Now You See Me, Now You Don’t (Cynthia Brooks Wooten)
• Chapter 3. Collaboration and Encouragement as Mile Markers: Running for the Prize of PhD (Cynthia Thrasher Shamberger)
• Chapter 4. Black Wonder Woman: Demystifying the “Supernatural” Powers of the Black Female Doctoral Student (Cheryll Sibley-Albold)
• Chapter 5. Invisible Woman: A DIVA Seizing Visibility (Toni Milton Williams)
• Chapter 6. Tales from a Hip-Hop DIVA: One Girl’s Journey from the Bronx to the PhD (Dawn Nicole Hicks Tafari)
• Chapter 7. Transition—“Changing the Game”: The Role of Qualitative Narratives in Research and Knowledge Construction (Cherrel Miller Dyce and Toni Milton Williams)
• Chapter 8. The Liberatory Educator: Transforming Lives, One Student at a Time (Temeka L. Carter)
• Chapter 9. An African American Woman’s Continued Fight for a Pedagogical Education Inside of the Classroom (Marrissa R. Dick)
• Chapter 10. Present, But Not Present: The Personal and Educational Journey of a Doctoral Student Experiencing Deployment and Divorce (LaWanda M. Wallace)
• Chapter 11. Through the Fire: Marked, But Not Burned—A Doctoral Journey Transformed by Life’s Obstructions (Kim Doggett Pemberton)
• References
• Contributors