We Can Speak for Ourselves / by Billye Sankofa Waters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sankofa Waters, Billye, author.

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

Springer series on foundations and applications of artificial intelligence

Foundations and Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Education, general.

Local Subjects:

Education, general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (Approx. 170 pages).

Edition:

First edition 2016.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This work is an intervention of self-representation that explores experiences of five Black mothers of the same Chicago elementary school with respect to their relationship with the author - a qualitative researcher - over a period of two years. Black feminist epistemology is the framework that directed this project, fieldwork, and interpretation of the findings. Additionally, this work employs tools of poetry, counternarratives, and critical ethnography. Billye Sankofa Waters reiterates the plaintive lament of the mothers of 1970s Boston when they said, 'When we fight about education we're fighting for our lives.' This story of parents in Chicago is powerful, poignant, and oh so familiar. This is a must read!" - Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison the ways that Black mothers come to know and participate in their children's education. We Can Speak for Ourselves plumbs Black feminist epistemology and critical theory to create a new model that reimagines the critical terrain of both public and private African American female 'motherwork.' It is intersectionally deft in how it attends to both structural issues of inequality and intragroup negotiation of identity. This book is bold, well-researched and an important contribution to the fields of Education, Sociology, Women's and Gender Studies and Public Policy." - Michele T. Berger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; author of Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS and co-author of Transforming Scholarship: Why Women's and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World We Can Speak for Ourselves is a necessary read for everyone, especially Black mothers, who are on the front lines of the Black Lives Matter Movement. After all, the movement at its core is about resisting the anti-Black society in which Black mothers are forced to raise their children. Sankofa Waters beautifully blends personal writings, counternarratives, and the voices of five Black mothers to create a book that gives us new language to address the issues impacting Black families and Black survival. Through this work, Sankofa Waters expertly depicts the struggles of Black mothers as organic intellectuals deconstructing, critiquing, and navigating the power structures that oppress their sons, daughters, and Black communities at large." - Bettina L. Love, University of Georgia; Board Chair of The Kindezi School in Atlanta, Georgia; 2016 Nasir Jones Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University; and author of Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South.

Contents:

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Research Problem

Positionality

Significance and Audience

Context

SSCES and the Journey of This Project

Research Questions

Methods

Black Feminist Theory

Motherwork

Forward

Who Says What about Black Women: Review of Discourses

Our First Stage: Scientific Discourse

Government Discourse

Education Discourse

Mothering Discourse

Controlling Images: Media Discourse

Legal Interventions

We Speak

"I Know Who You Are But...": Epistemology

Qualitative Methods

Ethical Research

Interviews

Coding

Narratives

Poetry

Validity

Reciprocity

Reflexive Journal

Giving Voice

Limitations

Maya, Nikki, Carolyn, Jill, Sonia

The Mothers

Maya

Nikki

Carolyn

Jill

Sonia

The Present of Presence: Summation

Coming Together: Analysis and Interpretations

Defining Mother

Preparing Children

Navigating Institution

Other

Returning to the Journal

Openings

Broader Meanings

Greatest Contributions

We

"If I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire": Epilogue

Civil Rights

2015 Battle Lines

Documenting the Streets and Social Media Quality

Maps for Further Research: Ideologies that Continue to Impact Black Families

Challenge

Appendix I: Participants

Appendix II: Initial Interview Guide

Appendix III: Second Interview Guide

Appendix IV: Glossary of Pseudonyms

References

About the Author

Name Index

Subject Index.

ISBN:

978-94-6300-271-4

9789463002714

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.