Women of Color With Critical Worldviews Constructing Spaces of Resistance in Education Doctoral Programs

We examined the experiences of women of color (WoC) with critical worldviews in education doctoral programs. How students experience doctoral programs in relation to forwarding a critical perspective is integral to positive student development and academic success. A critical race feminist (CRF) approach framed the voices and experiences of 14 WoC from education doctoral programs and revealed 3 central spaces of resistance to develop this paradigm for the WoC: Faculty relationships, peer relationships, and opportunities outside of their programs. In using a CRF framework, we also centered the voices of WoC by citing only WoC scholars. Termed by Ahmed (2017), this approach recalls a "feminist memory." Implications for supporting WoC for not only surviving but also thriving in education doctoral programs are discussed.