Personal narrative and research stress that Black womxn college students employ various types of coping strategies to navigate anti-Black gendered racism at institutional and interpersonal levels while obtaining their college degrees. Throughout this dissertation, I explore how Black college womxn and femmes coped with gendered racism at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder), a predominantly and historically white institution in the American West. Working within a conceptual framework made up of Black feminism, anti-Black settler colonialism, and institutionality, I ask how Black undergraduate womxn and femmes perceived the writ large of anti-Black gendered racism at CU Boulder, and how they understood and demonstrated coping to survive the psychological aftermath of racially gendered stressors that the neoliberal university perpetuates. To answer this overarching research question, I conducted qualitative research methodology including participant observation, focus group interviews, and in-depth one-on-one interviews with Black womxn and femme undergraduates attending CU Boulder. Findings indicate that while Black undergraduate womxn and femme students utilized numerous strategies to cope at CU Boulder, the persistence of anti-Black gendered racism remained part of a prolonged her/history of Black fungibility and Black liminality in the "Wild West." Additionally, I provide connections between coping, survival, and the politicization of care as illustrated by Black womxn and femme college students throughout my dissertation. [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://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]