Black woman scientists : outliers in South African universities

dc.contributor.authorLiccardo, Sabrina
dc.contributor.authorBradbury, Jill
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-01T15:59:59Z
dc.date.issued2017-09
dc.description.abstractBlack women scientists are living in an important time in South Africa as the socio-political landscape is changing rapidly, effecting changes in many dimensions of identification, particularly ‘race’, gender and class. This paper draws data from in-depth interviews with a cohort (n = 10) of Science scholarship students to explore experiences of alienation and belonging at university. Although these young women are, by definition, ‘high performers’, selected from the top five percentile of their secondary schools, they may still enter university study with limited access to dominant forms of cultural capital, including English proficiency and scientific terminology, and other forms of less tangible knowledge. The participants recount multiple experiences of non-belonging in the university context, both in and outside of classrooms, and a sense of alienation from their chosen fields of study. However, the findings also suggest that the establishment of affective bonds with particular institutional spaces and people stabilises their sense of self and belonging. Perhaps simultaneous membership of two outlier groups, a marginal and an elite group, which creates alternating senses of alienation and belonging, may provoke new modes of academic life and ways of doing Science.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentPsychologyen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2018-09-27
dc.description.librarianhj2017en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rmse20en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSabrina Liccardo & Jill Bradbury (2017) Black Women Scientists: Outliers in South African Universities, African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 21:3, 282-292, DOI: 10.1080/18117295.2017.1371980.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1811-7295 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2469-7656 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/18117295.2017.1371980
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/63418
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_ZA
dc.rights© 2017 Southern African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (SAARMSTE). This is an electronic version of an article published in African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 282-292, 2017. doi : 10.1080/18117295.2017.1371980. African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rmse20.en_ZA
dc.subjectAlienationen_ZA
dc.subjectBelongingen_ZA
dc.subjectCultural capitalen_ZA
dc.subjectUniversityen_ZA
dc.subjectBlack women in Scienceen_ZA
dc.subjectAcademic identityen_ZA
dc.titleBlack woman scientists : outliers in South African universitiesen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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