Black Woman on Board

Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-64825-023-1
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 244 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Gender and Race in American History

Offers a rare view inside the university boardroom, uncovering the vital role Black women educational leaders have played in ensuring access and equity for all.

LONGLISTED: 2025 PEN American Open Book Award
WINNER: 2024 Best Indie Book Award in Non-Fiction: History, Politics, and Social Sciences

Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action examines the leadership strategies that Black women educators have employed as influential power brokers in predominantly white colleges and universities in the United States. Author Donna J. Nicol tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Claudia H. Hampton, the California State University (CSU) system's first Black woman trustee, who later became the board's first woman chair, and her twenty-year fight (1974–94) to increase access within the CSU for historically marginalized and underrepresented groups. Amid a growing white backlash against changes brought on by the 1960s Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, Nicol argues that Hampton enacted "sly civility" to persuade fellow trustees, CSU system officials, and state lawmakers to enforce federal and state affirmative action mandates.

Black Woman on Board explores how Hampton methodically "played the game of boardsmanship," using the soft power she cultivated amongst her peers to remove barriers that might have impeded the implementation and expansion of affirmative action policies and programs. In illuminating the ways that Hampton transformed the CSU as the "affirmative action trustee," this remarkable book makes an important contribution to the history of higher education and to the historiography of Black women's educational leadership in the post-Civil Rights era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nicol, Donna J

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures and Illustrations

Introduction: A Very Fortunate Happenstance

1. Shifting Notions of the Public Good
2. Misgivings About Affirmative Action
3. The Conciliator Makes Dinner
4. A Hammer in a Velvet Glove
5. The Beginning of the End
Conclusion: The Legacy and The Lessons

Bibliography
Appendix: Hampton's Board Committee Service and Leadership
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicol, Donna J
DONNA J. NICOL is Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts at California State University, Long Beach, CA.