1st Edition

Black Feminism in Qualitative Inquiry A Mosaic for Writing Our Daughter's Body

By Venus E. Evans-Winters Copyright 2019
156 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

156 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

156 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.

"...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