Between 1999 to 2018, there has been an 11% decrease in Black women staff and administrators at post-secondary institutions. More research is needed to understand the experiences of Black women who work in housing as research fails to address the experiences of Black women housing professionals. This dissertation uncovers how Black women reflect on their experiences of gendered racism at predominantly white institutions and how they cope with such experiences. I found that Black women offered reflections on their relationships with Black women, white men, Black men, white women as students. Black women also shared their reflections with discrimination, deceptive institutional culture, and an overall lack of support of Black women housing professionals within higher education. Black women also discussed utilizing several coping strategies such as hyper-awareness, hypervigilance, enacting personal and professional boundaries, avoiding hypervisibility and engaging in personal and familial connections with the greater Black community. Lastly, Black women discussed utilizing resilience as an unconscious and omnipresent coping strategy. I offer several recommendations encouraging institutions to enact system change and calling for those that harm Black women, specifically Black men, and white women, to reconsider the hypocrisy in their support of Black women. However, I present a narrative of critical pessimism relating to the consistent and unchanging institutional inaction regarding the mistreatment of Black women housing professionals at predominantly white institutions. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]