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  title info:
    title: We Can Speak for Ourselves
    sub title: Parent Involvement and Ideologies of Black Mothers in Chicago
  name:
    name part: Waters, Billye Sankofa.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: Approx. 170 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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 p…
  table of 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 -- Methods -- “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.
  note: by Billye Sankofa Waters.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Education, general
  classification: L1-991
  classification: 370
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      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: 9789463002714
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-271-4
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    record creation date: 151217
    record change date: 20151217120121.0
    record identifier: 978-94-6300-271-4