Relationships Between Discrimination, Stress, and Health Among Black Women Faculty in Higher Education
摘要
There is a growing body of research on Black women faculty in institutions of higher education highlighting how Black women have thrived on college campuses, even when many institutions were not built for their success. However, there is scant evidence of the mental and physical health consequences of the racial and gender stress that Black women encounter in social contexts such as colleges and universities, including depression, anxiety, and detrimental physical health diagnoses (e.g., cancer, hypertension, and reproductive health concerns). In this integrative review of the literature, we bring together two bodies of evidence: scholarship on Black women faculty in higher education and research about mental and physical health conditions for Black women. We consider the conceptual and empirical assumptions of scholarly work about Black women faculty and Black women’s health outcomes to pave a path toward future research and theorizing that aim to help recruit and retain Black women faculty in the academy.