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Through a practice-based research project design and insistence on Black oral and embodied traditions, this study examines unexplored narratives of Black women dancers and native speakers of the Black American oral tradition shaped by the distinct experience of being in Brooklyn. Through a critical metaphysical analysis curated by a Hood Logic methodology, I assert that their nuanced experiences and the intersectionality of the forces that shape these experiences constitute the Ebonic Body: a distinct consciousness, a specific way of being in the world, and a definite knowledge system. 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Through a critical metaphysical analysis curated by a Hood Logic methodology, I assert that their nuanced experiences and the intersectionality of the forces that shape these experiences constitute the Ebonic Body: a distinct consciousness, a specific way of being in the world, and a definite knowledge system. 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