This volume examines the educational leadership of Black women in the U.S. as informed by their raced and gendered positionalities experiences perspectives and most importantly the intersection of these doubly marginalized identities in school and community contexts. While there are bodies of research literature on women in educational leadership as well as the leadership development philosophies and approaches of Black or African American educational leaders this issue interrogates the ways in which the Black woman’s socially constructed intersectional identity informs her leadership values approach and impact. As an act of self-invention the volume simultaneously showcases the research and voices of Black women scholars – perspectives traditionally silenced in the leadership discourse generally and educational leadership discourse specifically. Whether the empirical or conceptual focus is a Black female school principal African American female superintendent Black feminist of the early twentieth century or Black woman education researcher the framing and analysis of each article interrogates how the unique location of the Black woman at the intersection of race and gender shapes and influences their lived personal and/or professional experiences as educational leaders. This collection will be of interest to education leadership researchers faculty and students practicing school and district administrators and readers interested in education leadership studies leadership theory Black feminist thought intersectionality and African American leadership. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. |Intersectional Identities and Educational Leadership of Black Women in the USA
