This study presents the voices of six graduate-educated Black female adjuncts from predominantly white institutions (PWIs) who were interviewed regarding their perception of barriers that prevent Black women from pursuing a Ph.D. degree in business that could lead to tenure/tenure track professorship appointments at four-year colleges or schools of business. What emerged was the complexity involving intersections of identity such as race, gender, and academic position that they perceived as reasons for lack of pursuance. Intersectionality Theory provides the theoretical framework for the study. In addition to the connection of intersectionality and Black female faculty, the findings from this phenomenological study brought forth themes of invisibility, lack of role models, and concrete ceilings that Black female adjuncts experience in higher education PWIs that can lead to a lack of pursuance of the business Ph.D. The study demonstrates a continued need to understand and hear the voices of Black female faculty in colleges and schools of business at PWIs in the United States. Keywords: intersectionality, concrete ceiling, Black female faculty, predominantly White institutions, graduate education
