Mapping the Material and Metaphysical Imaginaries of Black Women Educators Through Their Creative Production

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Abstract

This paper amplifies and builds upon existing research to offer that the political and community work of Black women educators is grounded in spatial, speculative, and spiritual perspectives uniquely produced through Black women’s ontoepistemologies. Focused on Black women of the early to mid twentieth century, this paper examines the writings (including poems, short stories, and plays) and other artistic renderings of Black women educators who also engaged in a creative practice before or alongside their educational work. As such, this paper seeks to map the ways their spatial, speculative, and spiritual imaginaries manifest in their creative work and influence their educational praxes.

Author

• Amber Chevaughn Johnson, University of Maryland