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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Black Feminist Thought"”.
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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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Education from the "Bottom" Up: Black Women Navigating the Community College Transfer Experience
<p>This study looks at the experiences of 11 Black women as they transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions. This study employs Black Feminist Thought to help analyze the experiences of Black women who transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions. This framework is …
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"""They're My Babies..."": The Role and Professional Development of Instructional Aides"
I have chosen black feminist thought and critical race theory as the theoretical foundation of this work because they complement the lenses through which I see the world. Black feminist thought is important because it deals with the intersectionality of race, class and gender. Critical race theory …
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Now You See Me: A Black Feminist Autoethnographic Poetic Polemic of Radical Reflexivity and Critical Arts-Based Inquiry
… is grounded in the epistemological tradition of Black Feminist Thought and presented in alignment with the emergent methodological paradigm of critical arts-based inquiry. The purpose of the project is for the author to develop and articulate a radical reflexive praxis within the paradigm of …
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Race and Gender in the Leadership Experiences of Three Female African American High School Principals: A Multiple Case Study
… The theoretical foundation for the study was black feminist thought as defined by Patricia Hill Collins. Black feminist thought focuses on the marginalized status of African American women and places their experiences at the center of the discourse. In examining the narratives of each of the …
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Explicit Content: Hip Hop, Feminism, and the Black Woman
… work uses grounded theory and the framework of Black feminist thought to analyze the messages in contemporary hip hop music. Grounded theory was chosen to create an unbiased setting that allowed the themes to emerge rather than looking for specific occurrences. The beginning sections focus on …
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Outsiders within : a phenomenological qualitative study of how Black female faculty navigate race and gender in predominately White institutions.
… obtain greater insight into the experiences of Black women who work as full-time faculty at two and four-year colleges and universities. This phenomenological qualitative study investigated the formal and informal interactions that full-time Black female faculty have with colleagues and students …
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The voices of African American women's transition experiences from a community college to a four-year college sharing a campus
… design and theoretical framework, such as Black feminist thought are prudent. The purpose of this descriptive phenomenological study was to describe the lived transition experiences of African American women transferring from a community college to a four-year university that share a …
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A seat at the table : an instrumental case study on the personal and professional strategies of resistance Black women professionals adapt while employed at a predominantly White institution.
Black women have been central to the progression of higher education for centuries yet relegated to background roles in the conversation of equity, inclusion, and belonging. Recent scholarly contributions illuminate and center the plight of Black women professionals at predominantly White …
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Self, Other, and Jump Rope Community: The Triumphs of African American Women
Using Critical Race Theory, Critical Literacy, Black Feminist Thought as a theoretical framework and Oral History as research methodology, the lives of four young African American women are explored as they leave their culturally insular surroundings, Jump Rope Communities, to seek access to the …
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Overrepresented Man: Genre, Violence, and Hegemony
… by the rich, interdisciplinary body of Black Feminist thought. To address the continued practices of social, political, and material violence which sustain the Wynterian onto-epistemological "Overrepresentation of Man," an emergent archipelagic politics of heterogenous coalition-building …
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“IT’S LEVELS TO THIS”: BLACK UNDERGRADUATE FEMALE STUDENT PERCEPTIONS REGARDING THEIR LEVEL OF INVOLVEMENT IN BLACK STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
… qualitative study describes the experiences of Black undergraduate women who are involved in a Black student organization at a public predominantly White institution (PWI) beyond the freshman year. Understanding how these students are involved, the meaning they make of their participation, and …
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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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African American Women Elementary School Principals: Impact of Race and Gender on Suspension Practices
… framework used to answer this question is Black Feminist Thought (Collins, 2000). Through in-depth interviews, the women revealed how double consciousness and the dual oppression of race and gender impacted their decisions regarding suspension. Black feminist thought focuses on the …
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Black women, HIV/AIDS, and the media: communicating an epidemic in the hip hop era
… the mediated representation of HIV/AIDS and blackness. Using black feminist thought, and its organizing principles— intersectionality and the matrix of domination—this analysis investigates how race, gender, class, and disease work in concert to inform media texts by and about black women …
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“Here I come with all my Black girl magic”: Black women and girls’ experiences in predominantly white independent private schools
Within independent private schools specifically, Black women and girls endure feelings of rejection, isolation, and inadequacy all whilst trying to maintain their academic or career success and a positive self-perception. Through the lenses of Black Feminist Thought and Critical Race Theory, this …
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Homegirl Going Home: Hip Hop Feminism and the Representational Politics of Location
… the representation and lived experience of Black women who comprise the hip hop generation, or the post-civil rights generation for persons of color born between 1965-1984 (Kitwana, 2002, p. xiii). The researcher employs a three-part research design, which includes autoethnography, a series …
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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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Navigating Gendered Racism through Coping and Radical Healing: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black Women’s Mental Health in Doctoral Programs
… as a pervasive mental health concern among Black women doctoral students. However, there is a scarcity of existing literature on the strategies being used to maintain mental well-being while navigating gendered racism among Black women doctoral students. To address the current gaps in …
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Englewood survival: Black mothers’ coping and resiliency
… analyzes the lived experiences of 62 Black mothers living and surviving in Englewood, an impoverished neighborhood with high levels of violence on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. The interviews were analyzed using aspects of grounded theory and with the goal to learn more about …
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