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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Educ.
Sec. Higher Education
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1416255
This article is part of the Research Topic Dismantling Racial Inequalities in Higher Education View all 8 articles

Hispanic-serving HBCUs?: Towards an Anti-Colonial Meso-relevant Theory of Organizational Identity in Sacred Spaces of Black Education

Provisionally accepted
Dwuana Ann Renee Bradley Dwuana Ann Renee Bradley 1*Gina Renee Tillis Gina Renee Tillis 2
  • 1 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States
  • 2 University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States

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    Scholars have documented student demographic shifts at HBCUs, yet little attention has been given to critical inclusive frameworks that show promise in protecting the unique institutional character and culture of HBCUs. In this study, we layout an anti-colonial organizational heuristic for Historically Black emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions. This original conceptual manuscript uses qualitative interviews to demonstrate how Black and Brown faculty and administrators can respond with anti-colonial inclusive practices that resist pressures to shed their HBCU organizational identity and character, particularly in response to regional demographic shifts and enrollment management pressures.

    Keywords: Critical Organizational Theory, Anti-racism, Anti-colonialism, higher education, HBCUs

    Received: 12 Apr 2024; Accepted: 29 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Bradley and Tillis. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Dwuana Ann Renee Bradley, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States

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