It’s My Prerogative: BLACK WOMEN ADMINISTRATORS SHARE THEIR CHALLENGES OF RACE AND GENDER AT PREDOMINATELY WHITE MICHIGAN INSTITUTIONS

With the passage of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, better known as Proposal 2, in 2006, race-conscious and gender-conscious policies and programs garnered much attention and review because Proposal 2 made such efforts illegal due to their exclusive and preferential practices (Michigan Civil R...

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Hauptverfasser:	Denise O’Neil Green, Ramona Meraz Lewis
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	African American studies African Americans American minorities American studies Anthropology Behavioral sciences Classroom activities Colleges Economic disciplines Economics Education Educational activities Educational administration Educational institutions Educational personnel Educators Employment Ethnic groups Ethnography Ethnology Formal education Higher education Human behavior Human populations Labor economics Marginalization Mentoring Mentors Occupations Pedagogy Persons Population studies School campuses Schools Social behavior Social sciences Teachers Teaching Women Working women
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Zusammenfassung:	With the passage of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, better known as Proposal 2, in 2006, race-conscious and gender-conscious policies and programs garnered much attention and review because Proposal 2 made such efforts illegal due to their exclusive and preferential practices (Michigan Civil Rights Commission, 2007). Women of color in Michigan, specifically African American women, find themselves in a peculiar situation because neither their race nor gender can be recognized in efforts to improve their status in the state, whether it is in terms of securing government contracts, government jobs, access to selective Michigan institutions, or merit scholarships. However, prior