Ancestral Knowledges: Narratives of Remembering

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Abstract

The long history of a global white supremacist capitalist patriarchy (hooks, 2015) demands that we offer viable alternatives that reflect humanistic and equitable social relations. This paper asks, “How can engaging with our ancestral knowledges support our work as scholar-activists, particularly as Women of Color?” Recognizing, validating, and drawing upon epistemologies that reflect BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color) experiences, values, and ways of being are crucial to finding alternative solutions to the entrenched dehumanization and relations of domination that permeate our world. The researchers utilize Duoethnography as a critical inquiry methodology to interrogate the hierarchy of western knowledge systems and to reimagine ancestral teaching as foundational to BIPOC thriving.

Authors

• Joey Yung-Jun Liu, Chapman University

• Charlotte Achieng-Evensen, Chapman University

• Lilia D. Monzo, Chapman University