Abstract
Seven Black women graduate students from across different functional areas of higher education work in solidarity to write a collective Black Feminist Autoethnography (BFA) (Griffin, 2012) about our experiences at our respective colleges and universities. BFA is a "theoretical and methodological means for Black female academics to critically narrate the pride and pain of Black womanhood" (Griffin, 2012, p. 1). This article centers Black feminist scholarship as a framework to reflexively interpret how we as seven Black women navigate within, against, and beyond the academy to address dominant narratives that affect our professional and personal experiences. We use contemporary music lyrics and poems by Black women to actively illustrate and interrogate our individual and collective positionalities to promote critical literacy. Together, we are seven Black sista scholars who reclaim our voice as legitimized epistemologies in academic spaces. Hear Our Voices.
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Wallace, Erica R.; Adams, J'nai D.; Fullwood, Carla Cadet; Horhn, Erica-Brittany; Loritts, Camaron; Propst, Brandy S.; and Walker, Coretta Roseboro
(2020)
"The Black Feminist Mixtape: A Collective Black Feminist Autoethnography of Black Women's Existence in the Academy,"
Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs: Vol. 5
:
Iss.
3
, Article 7.
Available at:
https://ecommons.luc.edu/jcshesa/vol5/iss3/7