Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant
Biographic Data
| ID | 339462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamara |
| FAMILY NAME | Beauboeuf-Lafontant |
| SIGNATURE | BEAUBOEUF-LAFONTANT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePauw University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 352 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe
Rethinking Post-Tenure Malaise: An Interactional, Pathways Approach to Understanding the Post-Tenure Period
The decades between tenure and retirement constitute the longest yet least understood period of a faculty member’s career. Previous research depicts the midcareer as fraught with reduced job and career satisfaction, lowered productivity, and even stagnation. However, we suggest a reframing of this period. Drawing on data from surveys and interviews of post-tenure faculty at three liberal arts institutions, we reconceptualize the post-tenure as a …
The New Howard Woman
In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Lucy Diggs Slowe charted new territory as the first African American dean of women. Serving in this administrative role for fifteen years at her alma mater, Howard University, Slowe introduced and shaped an extracurriculum to realize her unique ideal of educated Black womanhood, "the New Howard Woman." In a departure from the hyperscrutiny of nineteenth-century codes of respectability, the New Howa…
Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman: Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance
Introduction: A Half-Told Tale of Black Womanhood 1. More Than Historical, the Monolithic Me: Deconstructing Strong Black Womanhood 2. Living the Lies: Embodying Good Womanhood 3. Keeping up Appearances: The Performance of Strength 4. Lies Make Us Sick: Embodied Distress Among Strong Black Women 5.
Listening Past the Lies that Make Us Sick: A Voice-Centered Analysis of Strength and Depression among Black Women
You Have to Show Strength: An Exploration of Gender, Race, and Depression
Investigating the possible overlap between depressed and presumably strong Black women, this article maintains that women's experiences of depression are both gendered and raced. A review of clinical and popular literatures examining Black women's experiences of depression as well as findings from an interview study with a nonclinical sample of 44 Black women suggest that the discourse of being strong may normalize a distressinducing level of sel…
Womanist Lessons for Reinventing Teaching
Although teaching is regarded as "women's work," few calls for change in the multicultural and social justice literature focus attention on the teaching self as a socially constructed gendered identity. Given Black women's prominence in this literature as successful educators of students underserved in contemporary schools, the author suggests connections between their pedagogy and an empowered female self that transgresses many historical and co…
Keeping Up Appearances, Getting Fed Up: The Embodiment of Strength among African American Women
The body holds meaning. The fact that this thought takes us by surprise itself reflects significantly upon a culture that is seriously divided within itself, splitting itself off from nature, dividing the mind from the body, dividing thought from feeling, dividing one race against another, dividing the supposed nature of woman from the supposed nature of man. ———Kim Chernin, The Obsession ([1981] 1994, 2) There is a profound problem of embodiment…
Strong And Large Black Women: Exploring Relationships between Deviant Womanhood and Weight
This article questions the societal and cultural image of Black women as strong and suggests that this seemingly affirming portrayal is derived from a discourse of enslaved women's deviance. In highlighting connections between perceived strength and physical size among Black women, the analysis extends current feminist theory by considering the ways in which the weight many strong African American women carry is reflective of the deviant and deva…
A Womanist Experience of Caring: Understanding the Pedagogy of Exemplary Black Women Teachers
Facing Racism in Education
Facing Racism Education (2nd Edition), edited by Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant and D. Smith Augustine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Review, 1996. 407 pp. $21.95, paper. Reviewed by John M. Taborn, University of Minnesota. In their introduction to the second edition of Facing Racism Education, the editors' simple but poignant statement, Talking about racism is never easy, is a segue to understanding the purposes of the publication. First, the e…
You Have to Show Strength: An Exploration of Gender, Race, and Depression
Investigating the possible overlap between depressed and presumably strong Black women, this article maintains that women's experiences of depression are both gendered and raced. A review of clinical and popular literatures examining Black women's experiences of depression as well as findings from an interview study with a nonclinical sample of 44 Black women suggest that the discourse of being strong may normalize a distressinducing level of sel…
Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman: Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance
Introduction: A Half-Told Tale of Black Womanhood 1. More Than Historical, the Monolithic Me: Deconstructing Strong Black Womanhood 2. Living the Lies: Embodying Good Womanhood 3. Keeping up Appearances: The Performance of Strength 4. Lies Make Us Sick: Embodied Distress Among Strong Black Women 5.
A Womanist Experience of Caring: Understanding the Pedagogy of Exemplary Black Women Teachers
Strong And Large Black Women: Exploring Relationships between Deviant Womanhood and Weight
This article questions the societal and cultural image of Black women as strong and suggests that this seemingly affirming portrayal is derived from a discourse of enslaved women's deviance. In highlighting connections between perceived strength and physical size among Black women, the analysis extends current feminist theory by considering the ways in which the weight many strong African American women carry is reflective of the deviant and deva…
Listening Past the Lies that Make Us Sick: A Voice-Centered Analysis of Strength and Depression among Black Women
Womanist Lessons for Reinventing Teaching
Although teaching is regarded as "women's work," few calls for change in the multicultural and social justice literature focus attention on the teaching self as a socially constructed gendered identity. Given Black women's prominence in this literature as successful educators of students underserved in contemporary schools, the author suggests connections between their pedagogy and an empowered female self that transgresses many historical and co…
Keeping Up Appearances, Getting Fed Up: The Embodiment of Strength among African American Women
The body holds meaning. The fact that this thought takes us by surprise itself reflects significantly upon a culture that is seriously divided within itself, splitting itself off from nature, dividing the mind from the body, dividing thought from feeling, dividing one race against another, dividing the supposed nature of woman from the supposed nature of man. ———Kim Chernin, The Obsession ([1981] 1994, 2) There is a profound problem of embodiment…
Rethinking Post-Tenure Malaise: An Interactional, Pathways Approach to Understanding the Post-Tenure Period
The decades between tenure and retirement constitute the longest yet least understood period of a faculty member’s career. Previous research depicts the midcareer as fraught with reduced job and career satisfaction, lowered productivity, and even stagnation. However, we suggest a reframing of this period. Drawing on data from surveys and interviews of post-tenure faculty at three liberal arts institutions, we reconceptualize the post-tenure as a …
Facing Racism in Education
Facing Racism Education (2nd Edition), edited by Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant and D. Smith Augustine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Review, 1996. 407 pp. $21.95, paper. Reviewed by John M. Taborn, University of Minnesota. In their introduction to the second edition of Facing Racism Education, the editors' simple but poignant statement, Talking about racism is never easy, is a segue to understanding the purposes of the publication. First, the e…
A Womanist Experience of Caring: Understanding the Pedagogy of Exemplary Black Women Teachers
Strong And Large Black Women: Exploring Relationships between Deviant Womanhood and Weight
This article questions the societal and cultural image of Black women as strong and suggests that this seemingly affirming portrayal is derived from a discourse of enslaved women's deviance. In highlighting connections between perceived strength and physical size among Black women, the analysis extends current feminist theory by considering the ways in which the weight many strong African American women carry is reflective of the deviant and deva…
Womanist Lessons for Reinventing Teaching
Although teaching is regarded as "women's work," few calls for change in the multicultural and social justice literature focus attention on the teaching self as a socially constructed gendered identity. Given Black women's prominence in this literature as successful educators of students underserved in contemporary schools, the author suggests connections between their pedagogy and an empowered female self that transgresses many historical and co…
Keeping Up Appearances, Getting Fed Up: The Embodiment of Strength among African American Women
The body holds meaning. The fact that this thought takes us by surprise itself reflects significantly upon a culture that is seriously divided within itself, splitting itself off from nature, dividing the mind from the body, dividing thought from feeling, dividing one race against another, dividing the supposed nature of woman from the supposed nature of man. ———Kim Chernin, The Obsession ([1981] 1994, 2) There is a profound problem of embodiment…
You Have to Show Strength: An Exploration of Gender, Race, and Depression
Investigating the possible overlap between depressed and presumably strong Black women, this article maintains that women's experiences of depression are both gendered and raced. A review of clinical and popular literatures examining Black women's experiences of depression as well as findings from an interview study with a nonclinical sample of 44 Black women suggest that the discourse of being strong may normalize a distressinducing level of sel…
Listening Past the Lies that Make Us Sick: A Voice-Centered Analysis of Strength and Depression among Black Women
Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman: Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance
Introduction: A Half-Told Tale of Black Womanhood 1. More Than Historical, the Monolithic Me: Deconstructing Strong Black Womanhood 2. Living the Lies: Embodying Good Womanhood 3. Keeping up Appearances: The Performance of Strength 4. Lies Make Us Sick: Embodied Distress Among Strong Black Women 5.
The New Howard Woman
In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Lucy Diggs Slowe charted new territory as the first African American dean of women. Serving in this administrative role for fifteen years at her alma mater, Howard University, Slowe introduced and shaped an extracurriculum to realize her unique ideal of educated Black womanhood, "the New Howard Woman." In a departure from the hyperscrutiny of nineteenth-century codes of respectability, the New Howa…
Rethinking Post-Tenure Malaise: An Interactional, Pathways Approach to Understanding the Post-Tenure Period
The decades between tenure and retirement constitute the longest yet least understood period of a faculty member’s career. Previous research depicts the midcareer as fraught with reduced job and career satisfaction, lowered productivity, and even stagnation. However, we suggest a reframing of this period. Drawing on data from surveys and interviews of post-tenure faculty at three liberal arts institutions, we reconceptualize the post-tenure as a …
To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe
Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Black women (3 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)