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Showing 1 to 20 of 230 for “"Black Feminist"”.
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Playing with Anger: Lessons from Contemporary Black Feminist Dramas
… a society that often directs its anger toward Black bodies while dismissing the anger of those connected to them, the plays of 21st-century Black women serve as windows into the enduring cultural imprints of injustice enacted against Black people—both globally and, in particular, within the …
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Nonlinearity as Care: Black, Feminist, and Queer Temporalities of History
… temporalities of history that are underway in Feminist Philosophy, Black Studies, and Queer Theory.</p>
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Black Feminist Autobiographical Inquiry into the Experiences of a Teen Mom
Using Black feminist thought as the theoretical framework and autobiographical inquiry as methodology, I explored ways in which adversity fostered resiliency of character. Despite difficult circumstances, such as growing up in a poor, single-parent household and becoming pregnant in the 9th grade …
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Black feminist aesthetics and cosmopolitanism, 1920s-present: Narratives of postcolonial Bildungsroman
Black American cosmopolitan artists, writers, and performers enjoy a strong, yet underappreciated, history dating back to the nineteenth century. This case study seeks to shed light on the recent history of twentieth-century black feminist narratives of artists and performers, living out a …
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Developing a Vocabulary of Feeling: The Spirituality of Black Feminist Self-Repair
… that spirituality can be a useful component of Black feminist self-repair. Within the scope of Black women’s literary history, I argue that Morrison, Spillers, and Walker each functioned as three figures from Afrodiasporic spiritual traditions: the griot, the conjurer, and the medium, …
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Black Feminist Poiesis: Locating “The Uses of the Erotic” Within Black Domesticity
… she asks us to consider what it meant to be a Black woman artist when you are considered “the mule of the world,” and are stuck toiling away—as a launderer, a maid, a cook, a nanny—and your soul cried out with creativity? Particularly moved by Walker’s inquiry, this research turns to Lorde’s …
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Black feminist intellectual activism: a transformative pedagogy at a South African university
… critical pedagogic theories and activism from a black feminist perspective. The central argument is that education is not only confined to the formal classroom but also takes place in the most unlikely places outside the classroom. This work is premised on the educational philosophies of …
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Grammars of Care: On Care Full Writing as Black Feminist Pedagogy and Praxis
In Grammars of Care: On Care-Full Writing as Black Feminist Pedagogy and Praxis, I interrogate the processes through which care is theorized and enacted in order to make evident the ways in which anti-black state violence is narrativized as care and re-inscribed through formal education and …
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Black Feminist Liberatory Pedagogy and Ubuntu Solidarity: Toward an Otherwise World of Education
… the good in a thriving classroom comprised of Black and Brown teachers and students through a lens of Black feminist theory, and the third manuscript interrogates what it takes emotionally and intellectually to do this work as a white woman scholar who seeks ubuntu feminist solidarity. The …
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When Being Sick Makes Us Sicker: A Black Feminist Approach to Financial Toxicity
… with health care. In this thesis we take a Black Feminist approach towards understanding the mechanism of financial toxicity using the Healthy Neighborhood Study, a participatory action research study in nine Massachusetts communities. We observe a significant relationship between health …
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Predictors of Drug Treatment Completion Among Black Women: A Black Feminist Intersectionality Approach
… of drug treatment completion among a sample of black women compared to white women, white men, and black men. Data are drawn from the Treatment Episode Data Set - Discharges (TEDS-D) 2006, which is representative of treatment programs in 42 states and the District of Columbia. The sample …
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Rhythm and Roots: A Black Feminist Exploration of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Agricultural Education
… multi-modal research design informed by Black Feminist Thought to examine how agricultural teaching practices align with Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. The first study, a national survey of 514 agricultural educators, revealed that teachers highly valued instructional practices related to …
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We've Only Just Begun: A Black Feminist Analysis of Eleanor Smeal's National Press Club Address
The voices of black women have traditionally been excluded from rhetorical scholarship, both as a subject of study and as a methodological approach. Despite the little attention black feminist thought has received, black women have long been articulating the unique intersection of oppressions they …
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Developmental Networks, Black Feminist Thought, and Black Women Federal Senior Executives: A Case Study Approach
… empirical research informs our understanding of Black women in developmental networks and their political identities within those networks. This qualitative study, within the framework of grounded theory method and of case study research, examines two research questions: (1) What do Black women …
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Language practices of a digital Black feminist community on French Twitter: Gender, race, and sociopolitical discourse
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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The United States Supreme Court and affirmative action: A critical race, black feminist theoretical and textual analysis
… legal cases using Critical Race and Black Feminist theories to understand Fisher generally, but affirmative action more specifically.
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Reading Democracy: Anthologies of African American Women's Writing and the Legacy of Black Feminist Criticism, 1970-1990
… Democracy</italic> historicizes a black feminist literary critical practice and movement that developed alongside black feminist activism beginning in the 1970s. This dissertation addresses the future direction of scholarship based in Women's Studies and African-American Studies by …
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An Inquiry into the Experiences of the African American Woman Principal: Critical Race Theory and Black Feminist Perspectives
… of African American woman leader was heard), and Black Feminist Thought (Afrocentric feminist thought emphasized the importance that knowledge plays in empowering oppressed people). Data collection methods included interviews, observations, reflective journals, researcher interview reflection log …
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Critical Black feminist mentorship: A review of a middle school and university-sponsored program for adolescent Black girls
… mentorship programs in transforming the lives of Black adolescent girls by providing them with tools to change the narratives depicted by society. A qualitative design was employed that used phenomenological interviewing techniques and ethnographic observations to explore the experiences of the …
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