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Recently, Black women have taken the world stage in national politics, popular culture, professional sports, and bringing attention to racial injustice in policing and the judicial system. However, rarely are Black women acknowledged and highlighted for their efforts to understand the social problems confronting our generation and those generations that came before us. In the post-civil rights era, research faculty and theoreticians must acknowledge the marginalization of Black women scholars' voices in contemporary qualitative scholarship and debates.
Black Feminism in Qualitative Inquiry: A Mosaic for Writing our Daughter's Body engages qualitative inquiry to center the issues and concerns of Black women as researcher(s) and the researched while simultaneously questioning the ostensible innocence of qualitative inquiry, including methods of data collection, processes of data analysis, and representations of human experiences and identities. The text centers "daughtering" as the onto-epistemological tool for approaches to Black feminist and critical race data analysis in qualitative inquiry.
Advanced and novice researchers interested in decolonizing methodologies and liberatory tools of analysis will find the text useful for cultural, education, political, and racial critiques that center the intersectional identities and interpretations of Black women and girls and other people of color. Daughtering as a tool of analysis in Black feminist qualitative inquiry is our own cultural and spiritual way of being, doing, and performing decolonizing work.
Table des matières
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Introduction
Fieldnote 1. A Mosaic of Black Feminism
Fieldnote 2. Witnesses to the Covenant
Fieldnote 3. Decolonizing the Mind
Fieldnote 4. Tellin' Stories: Black Women's Thumbprints
Fieldnote 5. (De)Commodification of the Black Girl Narrative
Fieldnote 6. Voice in Re/Presentation
Fieldnote 7. Writing My Daughter's Body
Fieldnote 8. Unveiling the Mask
Fieldnote 9. An Inconvenient Truth
Fieldnote 10. Text Message: A Call and Response
Fieldnote 11. Daughtering: Decoding the Covenant
A propos de l'auteur
Venus E. Evans-Winters is an Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Educational Administration and Foundations at Illinois State University. She is also faculty affiliate with Women and Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies. Her research interests are educational policy, qualitative inquiry, and critical race feminism in education.
Résumé
This book foregrounds the participation and voices of Black women in qualitative inquiry, both as researcher and research subject, looking particularly at the processes of data collection and analysis. The book questions the innocence of qualitative inquiry as a space for Black identity and for representations of human experiences and identities.
Commentaire
"...in a time where the demands for anti-oppressive and anti-racist research methodologies become ever-more urgent, Evans-Winters' Black Feminism in Qualitative Inquiry: A Mosaic for Writing Our Daughter's Body offers a timely critique of the ways in which academia can further center upon and learn from the experiences and expertise of black women scholars."
-Chelsea Allen, Columbia School of Social Work, New York, NY, USA
