Historically, the representation of Black women in film has been non-existent at worst and highly questionable at best. As cross-cultural spectators--"a Black woman and a White man"--we used an oppositional gaze to critically "look" at the representation and adult development of Black female protagonists across U.S. films.…

This article explores the relationships among student-centered doctoral study for scholar-practitioners, adult development, and transformative learning. In this research study, the authors describe a project that explores an expanded conceptualization of doctoral education that is grounded in an integrative perspective on adult development and on…