Home with Hip Hop Feminism

Durham, Aisha

doi:10.3726/978-1-4539-1382-6

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“…Moreover, we move alongside the genealogy of Black onto-epistemological thought, namely, Bambara's [1] The Salt Eaters, to amplify the utility of Black Okello's [54] considerations on how Black writers intentionally direct their writing and theorizing toward Black people and communities. More specifically, we juxtapose their duoethnographic reflections with a Black feminist literary analysis [55][56][57] to locate emergent ideas about wholeness in the interpretations of Black thought and literature.…”

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Wholeness Is No Trifling Matter”: Toward an Epistemology of Care, Touch, and Celebration in Education

Okello,

Savage

2024

Education Sciences

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The authors argue that embracing life necessitates a shift in how we conceptualize wellness in education. They delve into the exploration of humanizing wellness and living well by drawing on Black onto-epistemologies, specifically referencing Bambara’s The Salt Eaters. This exploration involves examining how notions of wholeness manifest in the text and the subsequent implications for educators and scholars actively involved in anti-equity efforts. The authors elucidate both the possibilities and challenges related to care, touch, and celebration. In particular, they employ the concept of Black refusal to investigate how these elements can propel a critical departure from conventional ideas of wellness in the United States, paving the way for alternative modes of existence which prioritize wholeness. To achieve this, the authors present an exploration of the literature on whiteness, epistemology, and the destructive impact of anti-Blackness. The authors then introduce Black refusal as a theoretical framework, which functions as the frame guiding their methods. Examining personal reflective instances of engagement with the present political landscape, analyzing Bambara’s The Salt Eaters, and maintaining refusal as a central theoretical framework, the authors detail an epistemology of wholeness centered on care, touch, and celebration.

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Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

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“Wholeness Is No Trifling Matter”: Toward an Epistemology of Care, Touch, and Celebration in Education

Okello,

Savage

2024

Education Sciences

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“…I want to loop Hurston as a foremother to QI as well, especially considering QI’s indebtedness to anthropology but also how QI adopts genres that Hurston utilized outside the academy. Hurston’s influence in Black scholars in QI can be read in a number of places, particularly Black scholars who use biopoems, short stories, autoethnography, oral histories, and filmmaking as sites of blurring representational genres and the notion of who is and what is a researcher (e.g., Alexander, 2003; Boylorn, 2012, 2016; Callier, 2020; Durham, 2014; A. Johnson, 2016; E.…”

Section: Unsettling the Coloniality Of The Researchermentioning

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Unsettling the Coloniality of the Researcher: Toward a Black Studies Approach to Critical Humanisms in Qualitative Inquiry

Henson

2021

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article unsettles the coloniality of the researcher, a convergence between coloniality, the researcher, and dominant representations of the human. This unsettling is necessary to call attention to, critique, and dismantle the institutional and systemic racism and its quotidian and mundane practices within Qualitative Inquiry as well as the human sciences in general. Engaging in Black Studies and the autobiographical, I first flesh out how coloniality continues to inform our notion of who does research, how one does research, and which cultural messages and knowledges are permissible. This coloniality naturalizes Man as our conception of the human and represents Black people as non-human even as we become researchers. Then, I illustrate how Black Studies approaches to Black cultural traditions and philosophies open up different possibilities in Qualitative Inquiry for the Black researcher, critical knowledge practices, and a more expansive conception of the human.

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“…29 This contact-zone-creating can also be seen when hip-hop scholars use song lyrics and other components of hip-hop culture as metaphors within their research to critically analyze, through a sociocultural lens, their lived experiences and the locations they mark as homeplaces. 30 This speaking from, through, and merging of multiple identities is present within the work of hip-hop academics whose scholarship intentionally mirrors the structure of hip-hop songs as they utilize poetics, figurative language, and rhythm to construct the prose within their research. 31 This essay honors and extends the work of these hip-hop scholars by using my research to create contact zones, explore the ways hip-hop aesthetics and culture can (re)imagine traditional Eurocentric ways of producing/(re)presenting academic knowledge, and bring together my hip-hop self and my academic self within the pages of my scholarship.…”

Section: Contact Zonesmentioning

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Between DJs, turntables, and (re)imagining ivory tower experiences

McFerguson

2020

Review of Communication

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Like the DJ who mixes together snippets of songs, I use snippets of memories within this essay to create a layered account of my experience of being an insider/outsider within racialized academic spaces. Sharing these snippets lead me to a discussion about how the choices I deploy within my academic writing are an active attempt to make room and create a homeplace for myself within the ivory tower. Extending the hip-hop DJ metaphor, I discuss how DJs use turntables and records to sonically merge different worlds by bringing together disparate sounds, voices, and cultures. I argue that, like the DJ, my writing intentionally brings together two worlds/two cultures/ two voices/two selves: my academic self and my hip-hop self. Through word choice (hip-hop vernacular), use of hip-hop aesthetics (hip-hop metaphors and examples), and who I cite (sampling), I remix canonical Eurocentric ways of producing knowledge, make room for my voice to be heard in racialized academic homeplaces, and (re)imagine my experiences within academia.

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Home with Hip Hop Feminism

Cited by 51 publications

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“Wholeness Is No Trifling Matter”: Toward an Epistemology of Care, Touch, and Celebration in Education

“Wholeness Is No Trifling Matter”: Toward an Epistemology of Care, Touch, and Celebration in Education

Unsettling the Coloniality of the Researcher: Toward a Black Studies Approach to Critical Humanisms in Qualitative Inquiry

Between DJs, turntables, and (re)imagining ivory tower experiences

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