Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research

Toliver, S. R.

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“…20 Since phenomenologists were also predominately White scholars, those who use the approaches of narrative medicine fail to consider that Black women were treated as the property of White slave owners and thus were not historically viewed as "human" enough to express a lived experience. 21 In other words, researchers who use these methods should be sensitive to and aware of the historical implications of these approaches, particularly when interviewing minoritized groups such as Black women. This is especially important because neglecting to center the wide range of Black experiences perpetuates ongoing homogenization.…”

Section: Trusting Black Women Is the Process Of Centering Black Womenmentioning

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Trust Also Means Centering Black Women's Reproductive Health Narratives

Thomas¹

2022

Hastings Center Report

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This commentary responds to Yolonda Wilson's article “Is Trust Enough? Anti‐Black Racism and the Perception of Black Vaccine ‘Hesitancy’” by connecting mistrust to the phenomenon in the United States of blaming Black women for their own adverse health outcomes, particularly in the context of maternal and reproductive health. When medical practitioners and researchers fail to recognize and understand the racist social context of health problems, Black women and other minoritized groups are socialized to mistrust their bodies; as a result, these groups can come to mistrust medical institutions, and medical institutions to distrust patients from these groups. Highlighting the disproportionately and unjustly high maternal mortality rates among Black women, this commentary warns that neglecting to center the narratives of Black women tells an incomplete story of reproductive health disparities in the United States. Drawing on firsthand experience conducting qualitative reproductive‐health research with Black women, the author urges professionals in reproductive medicine and bioethics to use the tools of narrative medicine to listen to and center Black women's accounts of their lived experiences in order to deconstruct blame and work toward eliminating reproductive health disparities.

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Section: Trusting Black Women Is the Process Of Centering Black Womenmentioning

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Trust Also Means Centering Black Women's Reproductive Health Narratives

Thomas¹

2022

Hastings Center Report

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“…EFE offers Black mothers opportunities to establish alternative sites of existence within educational institutions and our communities. EFE implores Black mothers to reclaim our cultural, historical, and spiritual identities (Dillard, 2000;Toliver, 2021). In so doing, we center our whole selves, heal and uplift our communities, and create new worlds in which we and our children might live life more fully.…”

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“…In so doing, we center our whole selves, heal and uplift our communities, and create new worlds in which we and our children might live life more fully. EFE beholdens us to be accountable to the Black mothers and their children in which we engage (Dillard, 2000;Toliver, 2021). Through EFE, Dillard (2000) invites Black mother scholars "to become aware of multiple ways of knowing and doing research [and it is] available to those serious enough to interrogate the epistemological, political, and ethical level of their work" (p. 663).…”

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“…EFE provides us, Black mother scholars, with frameworks to reimagine the ways we engage in inquiry. EFE calls on Black mother scholars to challenge traditional ideologies that valorize objectivity in the research process, separate the researcher and researched, and recognize research participants as a bounded, autonomous individual (Toliver, 2021). Dillard challenges me and other Black mothers to center our work in a paradigm of spirituality where humanity and the self, creativity and healing, and safety and liberation (Dillard, 2006;Okpalaoka and Dillard, 2012) exist.…”

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“…Dillard challenges me and other Black mothers to center our work in a paradigm of spirituality where humanity and the self, creativity and healing, and safety and liberation (Dillard, 2006;Okpalaoka and Dillard, 2012) exist. Echoing Toliver (2021), EFE allows me to refute traditional methods of data representation and encourages space for the imaginative and cathartic use of creative non-fiction as a means to be responsible to the Black mothers I work with and for.…”

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2022

Front. Educ.

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A burgeoning body of literature explores the educational experiences of Black Canadian students. Such literature reveals Black students as disproportionately impacted by academic underachievement, discipline policies, and special education placement. Black Canadian mothers have long dreamt of and advocated for humanizing learning spaces for their children. This paper explores how a group of Black Canadian mothers partnered with one another to reimagine learning opportunities for their children. This article presents insights obtained from eight in-depth interviews with Black Canadian mothers living in Toronto. In these interviews, participants shared stories that center the following questions: (1). How do Black mothers reconceptualize their motherwork to include freedom dreams? (2). How do Black mothers partner with one another to produce a vision for their children’s education? Grounded in an arts-informed narrative methodology, this study compiled findings gained from interviews into the creative non-fiction story Set it Off. Set it Off captures personal narratives, shared by study participants, highlighting the central role of freedom dreams and resistance as Black Canadian mothers organize for their children’s education.

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“Gotta Love Some Human Connection”: Humanizing Data Expression in an Age of AI

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2024

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Rapidly developing technological advances have raised new questions about what makes us uniquely human. As data and generative AI become more powerful, what does it mean to learn, teach, create, make meaning, and express ourselves, even as machines are trained to take care of these tasks for us? With youth, and in the context of literacy and media education, we embrace this moment to broaden our social imaginations. Our collaboration with journalists ages 14–25 from 2019 to 2023 has yielded a corpus of over 30 multimodal compositions constructed with and/or about AI reaching audiences in the millions. On the basis of these youth texts – produced within our participatory research at YR Media, a national STEAM learning center and platform for emerging BIPOC content creators – we developed the conceptual framework presented here: Humanizing Data Expression (HDE). The key role of expression in HDE distinguishes the human from the machine through the lens of storytelling. Analysis of this corpus (podcasts, web‐based interactives, videos, radio features, online posts, social media assets) revealed four literacy practices of YR Media authors as they made sense of AI: (1) contextualize: try out AI‐powered features, reveal how it works; (2) unveil authorship: introduce AI creators and processes; (3) grapple: explore tensions and paradoxes; (4) play: hack, mess with, outsmart, exaggerate AI. From these insights, we end with implications of HDE as a framework for learning and teaching AI literacy, including its potential for critically transforming data literacy practice and pedagogy across schools, teaching, and teacher education.

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Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research

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Trust Also Means Centering Black Women's Reproductive Health Narratives

Trust Also Means Centering Black Women's Reproductive Health Narratives

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