Chosen We

Rachelle Winkle-Wagner is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the coauthor (with Angela M. Locks) of Diversity and Inclusion on Campus: Supporting Students of Color in College, and the author of The Unchosen We: Black Women and Identity in Higher Education, among other books.

"The Chosen We takes care to center Black women's voices in telling their stories. Building on her earlier book, The Unchosen Me, Winkle-Wagner highlights the empowering nature of collectivity, nuances our understanding of Black collegiate women's contexts, and shows how these contexts impact Black women's health." — Felecia Commodore, coauthor of Black Women College Students: A Guide to Student Success in Higher Education

• Introduction to the Foreword Author, Dr. Diana Slaughter Rachelle Winkle-WagnerForeword Diana Slaughter KotzinAcknowledgments Part I. Black Women's Self-Determination in Education from Here to Eternity 1. The Collective History of Black Women's Ways of Knowing 2. From the Unchosen Me to the Chosen We: Black Women Elevating Black Women Part II. From Individualism to Transformative Community at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) 3. Creating an Oasis Out of Isolation: Relationships That Provided Solace on White Campuses 4. Unapologetically Embracing Blackness: The Importance of Black Student Organizations on Predominantly White Campuses Part III. From a Collective Legacy of Racial Uplift to Empowered Individual Identity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) 5. Blackness-as-Greatness: The Normalization of Nuanced Views of Black Excellence within HBCUs 6. HBCUs as Home and Family: Embracing Intersectional and Nuanced Blackness through Inclusion Part IV. Embodying Race, Institutional Memory, and the Chosen We 7. From "Unity" to "Isolation": Comparing Experiences within HBCUs and PWIs 8. In Sickness and Health on Campus: The Health Inferences of College Contexts and Health in 60 Years of Oral History Appendix A: Putting Black Women at the Center as a White Woman: An Oral History Methodology Appendix B: Participants Quoted in the Book Appendix C: Reading List of Other Publications from the Project Notes References Index