"How We Get Over": Methodological Approaches for Black Herstory in Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Black women educators in the U.S. context have a legacy of leading and teaching across various fields. Their impact on Black youth and schooling was and continues to be tremendous. Our stories and legacies are too often undocumented or epistemologically delegitimized. This symposium uplifts Black women researcher positionalities and the methodologies we use to unpack Black women’s histories in the archives. Archival preservation prioritizes Eurocentric histories and presents a curated narrative that prioritizes the experiences and contributions of white people while otherizing everyone else. In the West African tradition, we offer ourselves as griots whose research seeks to fill in the archival gaps.

Sub Unit

• Division F - Historical Inquiry in Education

Chair

• Lashawn Faith Washington, University of Oklahoma

Papers

• The (Re)Search for Archival Goodness: Toward a Black Feminist Archival Praxis in Education - Amber Neal-Stanley, Purdue University

• Pilate's Wine House: Reimagining Black Women Educators' Histories and Futures - Renee Wilmot, Michigan State University

• Empathic Historical Ethnography: Finding Previously Understudied Black Women in the U.S. Professoriate - Francena F.L. Turner, University of Maryland

• Bridging Archival Gaps With Black Women's Oral Herstory - Monica Ugwu Perkins, Claremont Graduate University

Discussant

• ArCasia D. James-Gallaway, Texas A&M University