My initial reason for turning to Colorado College’s yearbooks was to get an idea about the experiences of Black women at CC in the 1990s. From there, I intended to search for articles in student newspapers about major events happening on campus that involved Black women. The 1990’s decade...

“The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.” trouillot, xxiii In “Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History,” Michel-Rolph Trouillot provides a powerful critique of practices within the discipline of history as they relate to the presence of...

In “‘Our Leaders Are Just We Ourself’: Black WomenCollege Student Leaders’ Experiences With Oppression and Sources of Nourishment on a Predominantly White College Campus,” Andrea D. Domingue explored the experiences of Black women in leadership positions at predominantly white colleges. Though using two existing frameworks— Black Feminist Theory and...

“The unpaid and paid work that Black women perform, the types of communities in which they live, and the kinds of relationships they have with others suggest that African-American women, as a group, experience a different world than those who are not Black and female.” (Collins, 1986, p. 747)...

Do Black women feel at home on Colorado College’s campus?  In “There’s no place like home? African American women in the residence halls of a predominantly white Midwestern University,” Christina S. Haynes explores the experiences of Black women at a large Midwestern university. Her goal was to shed light...