Mobilizing the Black affective network - Toward the presence of Black Women’s Affect in Education

• In Event: Race and STEM Education

Abstract

As Black women researchers committed to the experiences of Black women and girls in STEM, our interests converged around the ways Black women experience affect theory. In this analysis, we revisit our embodied experiences as graduate students enrolled in a seminar concerning affect theory, where racialized and gendered experiences were left unaddressed and interrogated. Through an explicitly Black feminist ontology of affect (Rogers,2019), and an exploration of our own engagement in the Black Affective Network (Ohito & Brown, 2021), we amplify the potential for affect theory to further collective understanding of how Black women and girls experience education.

Authors

• Nicollette Denise Mitchell, Vanderbilt Univeristy

• Marlena Eanes, Vanderbilt University

• Kenna Klass, Vanderbilt Univerisry