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Sisterhood is oft elusive, if not a misunderstood concept. Despite all the factors that could impede the development, elevation, and maintenance of sistering relationships, Black women continue to acknowledge the value of sisterhoods. Sistering offers a lifeline of support and validation. Holding membership in an empowering woman-centered relationship is a special kind of privilege. The authors in this volume contest any assumption that sisterhood is limited to blood relationships and physical proximity. In this volume, we consider sisterhood simultaneously as paradigm and praxis. We approach Sisterhood as Paradigm and attempt to parse out the nature of Sisterhood as it is understood in Black communities in the United States. We hope to convey an organized set of ideas about ""sisterhood"" to create sisterhood as a model of interaction or way of being with one another, specifically among Black women. We consider how sisterhood could be enacted as practice. Using Sisterhood as a framework, we explore Sisterhood as Peer Support, examining how Black women provide support to peers in academic and professional settings. We embark on a provision of applied exemplars of sistering in emerging digital media in Digital Sisterhood.

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As a collection, this volume adds much dimension to Black women's studies. This blend of theory, discipline, lived experience, and progressive methodology is interesting in structure and content. The connection of academic space to community space to digital space?creating sisterhood?brings the reader on a journey through many areas of connection and creation of meaning?from support in intimate spaces to resistance in oppressive public spaces. - Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University This refreshing and insightful collection of essays offers a rich theorizing of Black women's friendships, experiences, and lives both historically and in the contemporary period. Understanding sisterhood as a theory or paradigm of Black women's shared practices of living in and deciphering the world, the collection narrates Black women's journeys through family life, educational institutions and their communities. For those looking to build their own support networks in communities, educational institutions and other organizations, this is a must read. - ANDREA A. DAVIS is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities and special advisor on anti-Black racism strategies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University, Toronto.

This refreshing and insightful collection of essays offers a rich theorizing of Black women's friendships, experiences, and lives both historically and in the contemporary period. Understanding sisterhood as a theory or paradigm of Black women's shared practices of living in and deciphering the world, the collection narrates Black women's journeys through family life, educational institutions and their communities. For those looking to build their own support networks in communities, educational institutions and other organizations, this is a must read. --Andrea A. Davis is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities and special advisor on anti-Black racism strategies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University, Toronto As a collection, this volume adds much dimension to Black women's studies. This blend of theory, discipline, lived experience, and progressive methodology is interesting in structure and content. The connection of academic space to community space to digital space--creating sisterhood--brings the reader on a journey through many areas of connection and creation of meaning--from support in intimate spaces to resistance in oppressive public spaces. --Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University

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Dr. Denise Davis Maye is a Professor in the Department of Social Work at Alabama State University. Her research interests include the factors that influence the emotional development of adolescent girls and women of African ancestry. She is a past president of Sisters of the Academy Institute, an international organization that promotes collaborative scholarship and networking among Black women in academia. Dr. Sophia Rahming is an Associate Director in the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Florida State University (FSU). She earned her PhD at FSU researching the experiences of Afro-Caribbean women in STEM in the United States. Sophia works to increase opportunities that lead to science for all in STEM. Dr. Jill Andrew (she/her) is a child and youth worker, equity human rights educator, and a body justice advocate. Her PhD research explores the 'trifecta' of anti-Black racism, sexism, and fat hatred experienced by Black women and their accommodation and resistance of dominate body ideals through fashion and dress, activism, self-valuation, and social interactions. Jill is co-founder of Body Confidence Canada and is a politician in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Tamara Bertrand Jones is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University. She uses qualitative methods and critical and feminist theories to examine the education and professional experiences of Black women in academia. She is a founder and past president of Sisters of the Academy Institute, an international organization that promotes collaborative scholarship and networking among Black women in academia.

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