The Co-Eds
Beauboeuf-Lafontant, T. (2018). The New Howard Woman: Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe and the Education of a Modern Black Femininity. Meridians, 17(1), 25-48.
Bell-Scott, P. (1997). To keep my self-respect: Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe's 1927 memorandum on the sexual harassment of black women. NWSA Journal, 9(2), 70-76.
Gasman, M. (2007) Swept under the rug? A historiography of gender and black colleges. American Educational Research Journal, 44(4), 760-805.
Gasman, M., & Perna, L. W. (2011). Promoting attainment of African American women in the STEM Fields: Lessons from historically Black colleges and universities. In G. Jean-Marie & B. Lloyd-Jones (Eds.), Women of color in higher education: Changing directions and new perspectives (pp. 73-88). Bigley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Lindsey, T. B. (2017). Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington. University of Illinois Press. (Chapter 1, Climbing the Hilltop is of particular importance)
Patton, L.D. & Simmons, S. (2008). Exploring complexities of multiple identities of lesbians in a black college environment. Negro Educational Review, 59(3-4), 197-215. [Special Issue: Race and Gender]
Njoku, N. R., & Patton, L. D. (2017). Explorations of respectability and resistance in constructions of Black womanhood at HBCUs. In L.D. Patton & N.N. Croom (Eds.), Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success, : 143-157. New York, NY: Routledge.
Thomas, J. C. (2018). Pageantry & Politics: Miss Howard University from Civil Rights to Black Power. The Journal of Negro Education, 87(1), 22-32.
Spelman College, Bennett College, and Experiences beyond the Gender Binary at morehouse College
Flowers, D. B. (2005). The launching of the student sit-in movement: the role of black women at Bennett College. The Journal of African American History, 90(1-2), 52-63.
Guy-Sheftall, B. (1982). Black women and higher education: Spelman and Bennett colleges revisited. The Journal of Negro Education, 51(3), 278-287.
Lefever, H. G. (2005). Undaunted by the fight: Spelman College and the civil rights movement, 1957/1967. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press.
Mobley, Jr. S. D., & Johnson, J. M. (2018). “No pumps allowed”: The “problem” with gender expression and the Morehouse College “Appropriate Attire Policy.” Journal of Homosexuality. Advance online publication. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2018.1486063
Patton, L. D. (2014). Preserving respectability or blatant disrespect? A critical discourse analysis of the Morehouse Appropriate Attire Policy and implications for intersectional approaches to examining campus policies. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 27(6), 724-746.
Williams, E. L. (2013). Women's Studies and Sexuality Studies at HBCUs: The Audre Lorde Project at Spelman College. Feminist Studies, 39(2), 520-525.
Texts on Black students to be read with a lens that identifies the roles and history of Black women:
Williams, J., & Ashley, D. (2004). I'll find a way or make one: A tribute to historically black colleges and universities. New York: HarperCollins.
Njoku, N., Butler, M., & Beatty, C. C. (2017). Reimagining the historically Black college and university (HBCU) environment: exposing race secrets and the binding chains of respectability and othermothering. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 30(8), 783-799.