The Future of Autoethnography is Black

Durham, Aisha; McFerguson, Marquese L.; Sanders, Sasha; Woodruffe, Anjuliet G.

doi:10.1525/joae.2020.1.3.289

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“…However, with an intention of shedding light on multiple experiences, we (Asha and Hope) asked our mothers a set of questions to guide our conversations and assist in our analysis, interpretation, and meaning-making processes with each other and ourselves. Following the work of Durham et al (2020) who declared that the future of autoethnography was Black and that this work is radical-we dared to ask and answer the questions. Using Boylorn's (2015) Boylorn (2015) declares "Telling was murder and I anxiously became a coconspirator, killing the silence with the story."…”

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Between Black mothers and daughters: a critical intergenerational duoethnography on the silence of health disparities and hope of loud healing

Winfield,

Hickerson,

Doub

et al. 2024

Front. Commun.

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IntroductionBlack American women's health outcomes have been altered by a number of factors. Those factors include social determinants of health, lack of culturally competent healthcare providers, and generations of medical racism leading to prolonged pain, delayed care, and sometimes, untimely deaths.MethodsThis original research article centers Southern Black women's lived experiences through family storytelling to explore generations of health narratives in regard to age, region, and at times, their own acts of silence. Building from theorizing on loud healing, two Black daughters turn the mic on for their mothers by engaging in a critical intergenerational double duoethnography to discuss decades of healing over a 3 months long conversation (in person, over the phone, and on video chat).ResultsThe analysis of the interviews/dialogue between Black mothers and daughters identified several themes connected to loud healing: (1) some healths lessons quietly taught from intergenerational trauma; (2) the silencing of Black matriarchs occurs in generations not just spirals; (3) loud healing is a faith-filled call to action; (4) Mothers and daughters help turn the mic on for each other; (5) Loud healing is visibility and affirming; (6) the body teaches culturally competent lessons; (7) Trusting loud healing to leave the mic on and door open.DiscussionOur collective and individual lived experiences reveal the very real impacts of culture, identity, and power on Black women's health and storytelling. By interrogating the past with stories, this group of Black mothers and daughters represents three generations of medical erasures, amplification of voice, and the need for loud healing for loud, tangible change.

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Between Black mothers and daughters: a critical intergenerational duoethnography on the silence of health disparities and hope of loud healing

Winfield,

Hickerson,

Doub

et al. 2024

Front. Commun.

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“…Their unwavering vigor that conjures Hurston and other Black organic intellectuals takes QI to task for its racialized assumptions and the coloniality of the researcher. Recently, Aisha Durham et al (2020) argue autoethnography’s future is Black. By Black, they hail a Blackness that does not sit within an ontological lack but rather as an “ontology of resistance” harnessed by the Black autoethnographer to “author or rescript” new and emergent identities and experiences (p. 290).…”

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“…Anjuliet Woodruffe illuminates: “Again, if we are going back to identity as a discursive praxis, it is based on interaction. Even though we write about the self, we’re writing about the self in relation-to” (Durham et al, 2020, p. 295). Hurston, like Shakur, like Malcolm X, like Maria de Jesus, all write about the Black self but one that is grounded in relations to a Black community that represents home rather than the field.…”

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Unsettling the Coloniality of the Researcher: Toward a Black Studies Approach to Critical Humanisms in Qualitative Inquiry

Henson

2021

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article unsettles the coloniality of the researcher, a convergence between coloniality, the researcher, and dominant representations of the human. This unsettling is necessary to call attention to, critique, and dismantle the institutional and systemic racism and its quotidian and mundane practices within Qualitative Inquiry as well as the human sciences in general. Engaging in Black Studies and the autobiographical, I first flesh out how coloniality continues to inform our notion of who does research, how one does research, and which cultural messages and knowledges are permissible. This coloniality naturalizes Man as our conception of the human and represents Black people as non-human even as we become researchers. Then, I illustrate how Black Studies approaches to Black cultural traditions and philosophies open up different possibilities in Qualitative Inquiry for the Black researcher, critical knowledge practices, and a more expansive conception of the human.

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Black Woman Insighting Future Vision: Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb as a Site of Liberatory Knowledge Production

Wenk

2024

Communication Studies

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The Future of Autoethnography is Black

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Between Black mothers and daughters: a critical intergenerational duoethnography on the silence of health disparities and hope of loud healing

Between Black mothers and daughters: a critical intergenerational duoethnography on the silence of health disparities and hope of loud healing

Unsettling the Coloniality of the Researcher: Toward a Black Studies Approach to Critical Humanisms in Qualitative Inquiry

Black Woman Insighting Future Vision: Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb as a Site of Liberatory Knowledge Production

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