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Black Women's Stories of Everyday Racism puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem.
List of contents
Part I. Black Women's Stories of Everyday Racism
Chapter 1. "I Keep Most White People at a Distance"
Ronda C. Henry Anthony
Chapter 2. "I Would Love to Have Had that Conversation with Him"
Scotia Brown
Chapter 3. "Something I Never Recovered From"
Mary Bullock
Chapter 4. "Women of Color Really Have to Understand, or
Overstand"
Stephanie Caraway
Chapter 5. "No One Even Knows the Real Story"
Destiny Faceson
Chapter 6. "At that Moment I Felt-Dismissed"
Felicia Haney
Chapter 7. "I Was Never Considered an Asset to their Company in the First Place"
Lucrezia Hatfield
Chapter 8. "Racism Has Truly Shaped My Choices and How I Act"
Latoya Hale Tahirou
Part II. Introduction to the Narrative Analyses of the Women's Stories
Chapter 9. Testifyin' and Signifyin': Black Women's Narratives on Navigating Structural Racism in Central Indiana
Simone Drake
Chapter 10. She Was Not Heard: Personal Narratives that Tackle Structural Racism
Robyn Warhol
Chapter 11. Metacognition and Miscommunication: Interpreting Metacognitive Monitoring in African-American Women's Storytelling
Lisa Zunshine
Chapter 12. Rhetorical Listening: Character, Progression, and Fictionality in African American Women's Stories of Everyday Racism
James Phelan
Appendix: Storytelling Prompts Provided by the Researchers
About the author
Simone Drake, Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University, is executive producer of
Shutdown (2023) and author or editor of the following books:
Critical Appropriation: African American Woman and the Construction of Transnational Identity (2014),
When We Imagine Grace: Black Men and Subject Making (2016),
Are You Entertained?: Black Popular Culture in the 21st Century (2020), and
The Oxford Handbook of African American Women's Writing (2024).
James Phelan, Distinguished University Professor of English at Ohio State University, is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over 20 books, including
Somebody Telling Somebody Else (2017),
Debating Rhetorical Narratology (with Matthew Clark, 2020), and
Narrative Medicine: A Rhetorical Rx (2023). He has been editor of
Narrative since its inception in 1993.
Robyn Warhol, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University, has recently published
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories (co-edited with Zara Dinnen, 2018),
Narrative Theory Unbound (co-edited with Susan S. Lanser,
2015), and
Love Among the Archives (co-authored with Helena Michie, 2015).
Lisa Zunshine, Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, is a former Guggenheim fellow and the author or editor of 12 books, including
Getting Inside Your Head (2012),
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (2015), and
The Secret Life of Literature (2022).
Summary
Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem.
