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

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. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction 12 Fieldnotes 13 Playing with data in the dark 18 Fieldnote 1: A mosaic of Black feminism 22 Intellectual migrations 24 Multiple consciousness 27 Crafting race, class, and gender into qualitative inquiry 29 A mosaic of Black feminist thought 31 A framing of the pieces 37 Fieldnote 2: Witnesses to the covenant 39 Fragmented realities 41 Reflective selves 47 Fieldnote 3: Decolonizing the mind 55 Exhibit A: Dr. Venus E. Evans-Winters for BlackAdemics. KLRTV-PBS, Texas. February 17, 2018 55 Magical realism 58 Exhibit B: Books that fostered a critical race gender imagination by stages 62 Know thyself 64 Fieldnote 4: Tellin’ stories: Black women’s thumbprints 72 Dis-obedience 73 Liminal spaces 76 Discipline and control 77 Grown folks’ business 78 Fast forward 80 Fieldnote 5: (De)commodification of the Black girl narrative 83 Prologue 83 The flashback 87 Exhibit C: Black Girl Power. Dr. Venus Evans-Winters for Teacher College, Columbia University 95 Fieldnote 6: Voice in re/presentation 99 The researcher’s stage 99 Nanette: the flip side of the coin 101 The researcher’s voice 103 Fieldnote 7: Writing my daughter’s body 105 Episode I 105 Episode II 106 Episode III 108 Epilogue 111 Aligning my mother spirit with the ethnographic gaze 114 A note of dialogical voice(s) 115 Fieldnote 8: Unveiling the mask (of Toni) 117 Masks 117 Toni: a commentary on school life from behind the mask 119 Reflective narrative, Toni 122 The note, Toni 122 Fieldnote 9: An inconvenient truth 126 In the meantime ... 128 Shared inconvenient truths in inquiry 130 Fieldnote 10: Text message: A call and response 132 Apr 10, 2014, 2:26 PM 132 Apr 15, 2014, 2:45 PM 132 Apr 17, 2014, 11:08 AM 133 Apr 17, 2014, 1:54 PM 133 April 23, 2014, 11:00 AM 133 May 1, 2014, 1:29 PM 133 Jun 6, 2014, 12:06 AM 134 Jun 6, 2014, 11:23 AM 134 Jun 6, 2014, 2:18 PM 134 Jun 6, 2014, 8:58 PM 135 Jun 18, 2014, 7:20 PM 135 Jun 18, 2014, 9:02 PM 135 Jun 20, 2014, 10:04 AM 135 Jul 9, 2014, 10:56 AM 144 Jul 9, 2014, 3:18 PM 145 Feb 10, 2016, 2:28 PM 145 Feb 18, 2016 11:58 AM 145 Feb 18, 2016, 1:30 PM 145 Sat, Feb 25, 2017 2:39 PM 145 Fieldnote 11: De-coding the covenant: Daughtering as methodology 147 Daughter [daw-ter] 147 Rituals 147 References 152 Index 154