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. As 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.
Black Women Defining, Enacting, and Shifting Sisterhood: An Introduction
Denise Davis-Maye, Tamara Bertrand Jones, Sophia Rahming, and Jill Andrew
Section One- Sisterhood as Paradigm
Becoming Sisters, Becoming Free: Black Feminism, Sisterhood, and Social Justice
Jade DaCosta
Blood and Water: Black Motherhood, Friendship, Survival and the Power of Showing Up
Haile Eshe Cole
Unapologetic Responses to Unapologetic Exclusions: Advancing Communication within Sistah Spaces as a Vehicle of Resistance for Black Women living during the Post-Racial Era
Raven Maragh-Lloyd and Shardé M. Davis
Service, Leadership and Sisterhood: An Overview of Black Sororities in Social Science Research
Marcia Hernandez
Sisterhood Unexpected: ?I Met My Best Friend in LEAP!? and Other Narratives by LEAP for Girls Alumnae New York City, 2006-2016
Sara C. Flowers, Danielle Krushnic, Deborah Levine, and Sara Birnel Henderson
For the Culture: The Utilization of an African-Centered Paradigm as A Pipeline To Ensuring Success For Black Women Scholars In Academia
Yarneccia D. Dyson
Black Girls Don't: Correcting the Record of What Black Girls Can and Cannot Do
Krystal Lee and Daphne R. Wells
Section Two- Sisterhood as Peer Support
Sistership: Toward a Praxis of Communal Scholarship amongst Black Women Graduate Students
ArCasia James-Gallaway, Autumn Griffin, and Melanie Marshall
Let's ?SLAY? Together: Building Sisterhood, Scholarly Identity, and Solidarity Among Black Female Doctoral Students
Gloria L. Howell, Christina Wright Fields, Francesca A. Williamson, and Katrina M. Overby
#BlackGirlMagic: A Coalition of Sisterhood
Cherell M. Johnson, Colette McLemore Dixon, and LaTrina D. Parker Hall
Sister Circle: Guarding Sisterhood in Higher Education
Kalisha V. Turner, MaKesha Harris Lee, and Arielle Weaver
Sankofa Sisters: Returning to Sisterhood to Secure Our Progress
Angel Miles Nash, Tara Nkrumah, Rhonda Gillian Ottley, Kimberly Mason Peeples, and Devona F. Pierre
Black Sisterhood Created, Maintained, and Protected at an Anti-Black Institution
Ashley N. Gaskew, Jacqueline M. Forbes, Jamila Lee-Johnson, and Ja?Dell Davis
Section Three- Digital Sisterhood
In a Racist Kind of World, I?m Glad I?ve Got My Girls: Black Feminist Digital Sisterhoods Through Social Media
Jelisa Clark, Lisa Covington, and Veronica A. Newton
She?s My Sister, but We?ve Never Met Offline: Exploring the Relationship of Digital Black Sisterhood with PhD Students in Special Groups on Facebook
Erin L. Berry-McCrea and Briana Barner
Digital Sister Circles: Collectivity and Comradery in Natural Hair Online Communities
Joseanne Cudjoe
Sister Circles via Social Media
Adrianne Jackson and Leah Hunter
