This collection of essays continues the important work of situating the women-of-color experience into larger issues of institutional equity and social change. Distinctly, this volume features insightful, contemporary research on communication between women of color and their peers, administrators, and students, while also managing to foreground and maintain connections between women of color who are new to the academy and the rich heritage and legacies of our institutional foremothers. ... [T]he collection is highly successful on many levels. This volume is necessary, given the current landscape in academe. Not only does it update and revise notions of struggle and inequality for female professors of color, but its strength lies in that it does so across different majority institutional spaces. Another unique feature of the text is the way in which it integrates religion and ethnicity, resisting a black/white binary while understanding it as the primary race-relations context in which institutions of higher education are situated. The volume is strong in its varied use of feminist theory, spanning postcolonial feminism, womanist frameworks, paradigms of black feminist thought, auto-ethnography, and standpoint epistemology. ... The volume resonates because it not only uncovers obstacles encountered by women of color, but provides strategies for success and coping mechanisms as well. The collection builds on academic theory and feminist praxis in order to inspire, heal, and bear witness—all essential ingredients for the scholarly woman-of-color soul.

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly Of Women's Studies Resources

Still Searching for Our Mothers' Gardens recalls the seminal essay by Alice Walker in which she captures the rich, but largely unacknowledged, cultural traditions of African American women. [This book represents] the latest in a growing body of long overdue scholarship that explores the complex and varied experiences of a tiny group in higher education.…. Compelling, informative, cross-disciplinary, diverse, and insightful in its range of contributions … this is a must-read for scholars interested in close-up portraits of the experiences of junior women of color academics.

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D., Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies, Spelman College, president of the National Women's Studies Association

Taken together, these essays draw on the experiences of 'triple jeopardy' (race, class, and gender) to generate … innovative approaches to pedagogy and research that will benefit all scholars. Regardless of your field or your identity, if you want to glimpse the future of the academy-or at least what it could become-you must read this book.

Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

This compelling collection weaves a richly-textured tapestry of how women of color navigate the tenure track at predominantly white institutions of higher learning.…. Engaging, enlightening, and inspiring, this volume illuminates the exciting potential of communication to transform the ivory tower into a welcoming space for women of color.

Brenda J. Allen, University of Colorado at Denver