Black Students in Predominantly White Library Schools

Williams, Helen

doi:10.2307/40323668

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“…The White police in America have been empowered to act on internalized narratives of eugenics supported by hegemonic systems of power that result in the legal justification of the murder of Black men and women so that it "has become the means for keeping white criminality invisible." 13 Furthermore, the police departments have been "endowed with the authority to destroy" Black bodies. 14 I argue here that this form of attempted annihilation based on racism is criminal because such deeply rooted hatred prompts vile acts of murder while (re)traumatizing communities of color by murdering both their bodies and their spirits.…”

Section: Spirit Murderersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conversations With My Son: A Poetic Autoethnography of Black Mothering Experiences

Woodruffe

2022

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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In this essay, I engage with and extend the work of Black feminist scholars and poets Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Patricia Hill Collins, and Patricia Williams by examining the ways that Black mothers use anger to make sense of their lives amid the continuous law enforcement sanctioned killing of Black men by White police. Using poetry, I interweave with the Black feminist voices of the past and present to reconstruct a narrative about Black mothering and Black boyhood amid the spirit murders in communities of color in the United States. I use a conversation with my 5-year-old son as the genesis of this intellectual stimulation to construct a poetic autoethnography of Black mothering experiences as a generative rescripting of Black lives. This work is an impassioned, critical, and necessary mode of inquiry that speaks about the daily realities of Black mothers raising Black sons in America.

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Section: Spirit Murderersmentioning

confidence: 99%