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Author Sankofa Waters, Billye, author.

Title We can speak for ourselves : parent involvement and ideologies of black mothers in Chicago / Billye Sankofa Waters.

Publication Info. Rotterdam : SensePublishers, [2015]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource.
Series Breakthroughs in the sociology of education ; volume 5
Breakthroughs in the sociology of education ; volume 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 29, 2015).
Contents Advance praise for we can speak for ourselves; table of contents ; foreword ; preface ; foundation for this book ; rationale for this book ; audiences for this book.
Acknowledgements about the cover artist ; chapter 1: introduction; research problem; positionality; significance and audience ; context; ssces and the journey of this project ; research questions; methods.
BLACK FEMINIST THEORY MOTHERWORK; FORWARD ; NOTES ; CHAPTER 2: WHO SAYS WHAT ABOUT BLACK WOMEN: Review of Discourses; OUR FIRST STAGE: SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE; GOVERNMENT DISCOURSE ; EDUCATION DISCOURSE ; MOTHERING DISCOURSE; CONTROLING IMAGES: MEDIA DISCOURSE.
Legal interventions we speak ; notes ; chapter 3: methods; "i know who you are but ... ": epistemology ; qualitative methods; ethical research; interviews ; coding ; narratives; poetry ; validity.
RECIPROCITY REFLEXIVE JOURNAL; GIVING VOICE ; LIMITATIONS ; MAYA, NIKKI, CAROLYN, JILL, SONIA; NOTES ; CHAPTER 4: THE MOTHERS; MAYA ; NIKKI; CAROLYN ; JILL; SONIA; THE PRESENT OF PRESENCE: SUMMATION; NOTES ; CHAPTER 5: COMING TOGETHER: Analysis and Interpretations.
Summary This work is an intervention of self-representation that explores experiences of five Black mothers of the same Chicago elementary school with respect to their relationship with the author ́ℓℓ a qualitative researcher ́ℓℓ over a period of two years. Black feminist epistemology is the framework that directed this project, fieldwork, and interpretation of the findings. Additionally, this work employs tools of poetry, counternarratives, and critical ethnography. Billye Sankofa Waters reiterates the plaintive lament of the mothers of 1970s Boston when they said, ́ℓℓWhen we fight about education wéℓℓre fighting for our lives.́ℓℓ This story of parents in Chicago is powerful, poignant, and oh so familiar. This is a must read!́ℓℓ ́ℓℓ Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison the ways that Black mothers come to know and participate in their childreńℓℓs education. We Can Speak for Ourselves plumbs Black feminist epistemology and critical theory to create a new model that reimagines the critical terrain of both public and private African American female ́ℓℓmotherwork.́ℓℓ It is intersectionally deft in how it attends to both structural issues of inequality and intragroup negotiation of identity. This book is bold, well-researched and an important contribution to the fields of Education, Sociology, Womeńℓℓs and Gender Studies and Public Policy.́ℓℓ ́ℓℓ Michele T. Berger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; author of Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS and co-author of Transforming Scholarship: Why Womeńℓℓs and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World We Can Speak for Ourselves is a necessary read for everyone, especially Black mothers, who are on the front lines of the Black Lives Matter Movement. After all, the movement at its core is about resisting the anti-Black society in which Black mothers are forced to raise their children. Sankofa Waters beautifully blends personal writings, counternarratives, and the voices of five Black mothers to create a book that gives us new language to address the issues impacting Black families and Black survival. Through this work, Sankofa Waters expertly depicts the struggles of Black mothers as organic intellectuals deconstructing, critiquing, and navigating the power structures that oppress their sons, daughters, and Black communities at large.́ℓℓ ́ℓℓ Bettina L. Love, University of Georgia; Board Chair of The Kindezi School in Atlanta, Georgia; 2016 Nasir Jones Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University; and author of Hip Hoṕℓℓs Líℓℓl Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South.
Subject Education -- Parent participation -- Illinois -- Chicago.
African American mothers -- Illinois -- Chicago.
EDUCATION -- Elementary.
African American mothers. (OCoLC)fst00799267
Education -- Parent participation. (OCoLC)fst00902710
Illinois -- Chicago. (OCoLC)fst01204048
Other Form: Print version: Waters, Billye Sankofa. We Can Speak for Ourselves. Rotterdam : SensePublishers, ©2015
Standard No. 10.1007/978-94-6300-271-4 doi
ISBN 9789463002714 (electronic bk.)
9463002715 (electronic bk.)
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