Locating the Civil Rights Movement: An Essay on the Deep South, Midwest, and Border South in Black Freedom Studies

Lang, Clarence

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“…That history is deeply embedded in our identities as Black women scholars. The United States' Deep South, where we all have worked to earn doctorates, a region long shaped by its histories of segregation and exclusion (Lang, 2013), continues to mark us with the psychic scars of our ancestors (Jones, 2018).…”

Section: Conceptual Discussion: History Whiteness and Qualitative Researchmentioning

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Finding ourselves as Black women in Eurocentric theory: collaborative biography on learning and reshaping qualitative inquiry

Summerville

Campbell

Flantroy

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PurposeQualitative research consistently centers Eurocentrism through courses' integrations of ontological, epistemological and axiological perspectives. This literal whitewashing was a source of great frustration and confusion for the authors, four Black women, who found their identities omitted and disregarded in qualitative inquiry. Using Collins' outsider-within concept and collective narratives to center their experiences, the authors seek through their writing to actively repurpose and re-engage with qualitative scholarship that generally seeks to exclude Black women.Design/methodology/approachTheoretically informed by Collins' outsider-within concept, the authors use Deleuze and Parnet's collective biography to tell the stories of four Black doctoral students negotiating race, gender, class and intellectual identity, while critiquing Eurocentric theory, through coursework. The collaborative writing process provided shared space for the engagement of individual thoughts and experiences with(in) others' narratives.FindingsBlack women can interpret qualitative inquiry outside of the Eurocentric norm, and qualitative courses can provide spaces for them to do so by repositioning Black women philosophers as central to understanding qualitative inquiry.Originality/valueThrough collective biography (Deleuze and Parnet, 2007), this paper centers the voices of four Black women scholars who use a creative writing approach to think with/through theory as Black women (Jackson and Mazzei, 2012). The paper offers new discussions of and ways in which qualitative researchers might decolonize Eurocentric ways of knowing in qualitative inquiry and qualitative pedagogy from students' perspectives.

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Section: Conceptual Discussion: History Whiteness and Qualitative Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Finding ourselves as Black women in Eurocentric theory: collaborative biography on learning and reshaping qualitative inquiry

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Campbell

Flantroy

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“…It is Clarence Lang's contention the North and the South appear more alike than distinct, even though the conditions of black racial oppression have been articulated the sharpest in the South (the former eleven confederate states). 4 One likeness is the two regions' opposition and resistance to public school desegregation, although in St. Louis, school officials undertook desegregation differently from its counterparts in other former slave states. "From the standpoint of regional typologies, the 'border South,' [especially] St. Louis, Missouri .…”

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The “Intact Busing” Program in 1960s St. Louis Public Schools District

Weathersby

2018

Journal of Urban History

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Public school desegregation in the United States has come to be characterized and defined by the busing of schoolchildren, which is an activity that has been widely resisted and opposed by the white populace. In the St. Louis Public Schools district, the St. Louis Board of Education and its school administrators utilized its “intact busing” program not to achieve public school desegregation but to perpetuate de facto segregation in the classrooms of its elementary schools.

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“…What most U.S. students learn in school is that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a great leader and that Jim Crow segregation was supported by a few racist whites in the south who lost in the face of King's great moral suasion. The reality is that whites, in the north and the south, violently resisted school desegregation and violently fought the integration of their country clubs, companies, and neighborhoods (Andrews 2002; Campney 2010; Lang 2013). I myself experienced that visceral white resistance when my Latinx family moved into a white neighborhood in southern California in the mid-1970s.…”

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On the Ballot in 2020: Will the United States (finally) embrace civil rights?

Bedolla

2020

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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This article situates the 2020 presidential election within the context of U.S. history, specifically the longstanding relationship between white supremacist views and what types of U.S. citizens were considered capable of exercising democratic citizenship. I argue that President Trump's use of racialized, nativist tropes must be understood within that context and the ongoing backlash to the advancement of civil rights in the United States. White resistance to racial progress is not new, nor is the violence associated with it. Only by looking at the intersection of white racial resentment and modern sexism can we fully understand the durability of the Trump coalition. The article closes by considering what political scientists should be learning from this moment in order to better explain American political dynamics moving forward.

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Locating the Civil Rights Movement: An Essay on the Deep South, Midwest, and Border South in Black Freedom Studies

Cited by 9 publications

References 98 publications

Finding ourselves as Black women in Eurocentric theory: collaborative biography on learning and reshaping qualitative inquiry

Finding ourselves as Black women in Eurocentric theory: collaborative biography on learning and reshaping qualitative inquiry

The “Intact Busing” Program in 1960s St. Louis Public Schools District

On the Ballot in 2020: Will the United States (finally) embrace civil rights?

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