Resisting Mammy Professorhood during COVID-19

Jasmine Roberts-Crews
7 min readMay 15, 2020

Why Black women in academia are not your mammies, even during a global pandemic.

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I am an American rarity — I truly love my job.

My role as a professor gives me the privilege of waking up most mornings feeling eager to arrive on campus and enter the classroom because it brings out an element within me that no other environment can.

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Jasmine Roberts-Crews

Audacious Professor. Author. Advocate. Jasmine Roberts-Crews teaches strategic communication at Ohio State University. Connect with her on Twitter @ProfJasmine