The cultural constructs of race, gender and class: a study of how Afro‐Caribbean women academics negotiate their careers

Research on the cultural constructs of race, gender and class among 44 full‐time faculty women from the Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad campuses of the University of the West Indies suggest that that racial identity does separate women. However, their gendered identity establishes a common ground that allows them to share a socially constructed reality. Through in‐depth interviews with Afro‐Caribbean faculty women who were from different ethnic groups but the same race, the researcher discovered the unique ability of these women to negotiate their identities as they shared their perceptions and interpretations of daily academic life as Black faculty women.