Anjuliet G Woodruffe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anjuliet G Woodruffe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anjuliet G |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodruffe |
| SIGNATURE | WOODRUFFE A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9599-4444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Chaperoning freedom: Histopoetics, #hashtag activism, and the ongoing struggle for liberation
This paper explores the intersections of historical and contemporary struggles for Black freedom in the United States through the construct of chaperoning freedom. By demonstrating how Black freedoms have been historically disciplined, the author uses Black feminist autoethnography, and histopoetics, to navigate the tension between past injustices and present-day political policies. By revisiting landmark legal cases and examining contemporary le…
Soulscaping Black feminist performance through home finding
In this article, I unpack Black feminist performances of home within the context of transnational migration. Sifting through boxes of memorabilia during a relocation that rekindles post-migration nostalgia, I respond to the visceral call of home. Attuned to the performative nature of “homing,” I conceptualize soulscaping as affective and imaginative spaces that mediate the movement between being and yearning. Through soulscaping, I explore how ho…
Homing performance: A Black feminism roundtable
In this essay, we engage in a roundtable discussion to explore how we each home Black feminist performance in our work. We offer “homing” as an organizing concept. It does dual work. First, homing recalls a placemaking practice or a praxis of becoming and belonging using the knowing-doing body to create, disrupt, or transform space. Second, homing denotes a return to radical joy and make-do pragmatism rooted in Black feminism that relies on the k…
Home as a Space, Not a Place
In this essay, I theorize home as a space not a place as a Trinidadian transnational woman who engages in a communicative process of self-negotiation to (re)think, (re)imagine, and (re)construct home while living in the United States. In trying to re-create home away from homeland, home exists as an amalgam of life experiences, memories, and emotions while living in-between liminal, third spaces. Using poetic critical autoethnography in the form …
Conversations With My Son: A Poetic Autoethnography of Black Mothering Experiences
In this essay, I engage with and extend the work of Black feminist scholars and poets Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Patricia Hill Collins, and Patricia Williams by examining the ways that Black mothers use anger to make sense of their lives amid the continuous law enforcement sanctioned killing of Black men by White police. Using poetry, I interweave with the Black feminist voices of the past and present to reconstruct a narrative about Black motheri…
Surviving From the Margins: A Conversation About Identity With James Baldwin
Black feminist thought and Black feminist autoethnography are the theoretical and methodological tools that I use to explore transnational identity construction as a Black, Trinidadian–American woman who has experienced hyper(in)visibility. Three letters capture my epiphanic moments as the outsider-within. I stage an interaction with the late literary-activist–scholar, James Baldwin, to address identity-making through race and transnationality, a…
Home-Schooling in David Makes Man
This essay explores the logic of capitalism that shapes the experiences of a precarious Black Miami teen in the OWN television series David Makes Man. Analyzing seven episodes of the first season, we develop the concept of home-schooling to describe hustlin’ as a capitalist logic operating within Florida public housing and meritocracy as a capitalist logic celebrated at an elite magnet school to reveal imaginative possibilities of survival in Mia…
The Future of Autoethnography is Black
In this piece we present a provocation: that the future of autoethnography is Black. To say “Black” is to consider the possibility that blackness can flesh the felt-sense self as a part of the marked cultural body, can story relational experiences that are inventive and transgressive in its work to democratize forms and humanize the other in cocreated encounters, and can serve as an ontology of resistance in which blackness is harnessed to unders…
The Future of Autoethnography is Black
In this piece we present a provocation: that the future of autoethnography is Black. To say “Black” is to consider the possibility that blackness can flesh the felt-sense self as a part of the marked cultural body, can story relational experiences that are inventive and transgressive in its work to democratize forms and humanize the other in cocreated encounters, and can serve as an ontology of resistance in which blackness is harnessed to unders…
The Future of Autoethnography is Black
In this piece we present a provocation: that the future of autoethnography is Black. To say “Black” is to consider the possibility that blackness can flesh the felt-sense self as a part of the marked cultural body, can story relational experiences that are inventive and transgressive in its work to democratize forms and humanize the other in cocreated encounters, and can serve as an ontology of resistance in which blackness is harnessed to unders…
Surviving From the Margins: A Conversation About Identity With James Baldwin
Black feminist thought and Black feminist autoethnography are the theoretical and methodological tools that I use to explore transnational identity construction as a Black, Trinidadian–American woman who has experienced hyper(in)visibility. Three letters capture my epiphanic moments as the outsider-within. I stage an interaction with the late literary-activist–scholar, James Baldwin, to address identity-making through race and transnationality, a…
Home-Schooling in David Makes Man
This essay explores the logic of capitalism that shapes the experiences of a precarious Black Miami teen in the OWN television series David Makes Man. Analyzing seven episodes of the first season, we develop the concept of home-schooling to describe hustlin’ as a capitalist logic operating within Florida public housing and meritocracy as a capitalist logic celebrated at an elite magnet school to reveal imaginative possibilities of survival in Mia…
Conversations With My Son: A Poetic Autoethnography of Black Mothering Experiences
In this essay, I engage with and extend the work of Black feminist scholars and poets Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Patricia Hill Collins, and Patricia Williams by examining the ways that Black mothers use anger to make sense of their lives amid the continuous law enforcement sanctioned killing of Black men by White police. Using poetry, I interweave with the Black feminist voices of the past and present to reconstruct a narrative about Black motheri…
Home as a Space, Not a Place
In this essay, I theorize home as a space not a place as a Trinidadian transnational woman who engages in a communicative process of self-negotiation to (re)think, (re)imagine, and (re)construct home while living in the United States. In trying to re-create home away from homeland, home exists as an amalgam of life experiences, memories, and emotions while living in-between liminal, third spaces. Using poetic critical autoethnography in the form …
Chaperoning freedom: Histopoetics, #hashtag activism, and the ongoing struggle for liberation
This paper explores the intersections of historical and contemporary struggles for Black freedom in the United States through the construct of chaperoning freedom. By demonstrating how Black freedoms have been historically disciplined, the author uses Black feminist autoethnography, and histopoetics, to navigate the tension between past injustices and present-day political policies. By revisiting landmark legal cases and examining contemporary le…
Soulscaping Black feminist performance through home finding
In this article, I unpack Black feminist performances of home within the context of transnational migration. Sifting through boxes of memorabilia during a relocation that rekindles post-migration nostalgia, I respond to the visceral call of home. Attuned to the performative nature of “homing,” I conceptualize soulscaping as affective and imaginative spaces that mediate the movement between being and yearning. Through soulscaping, I explore how ho…
Homing performance: A Black feminism roundtable
In this essay, we engage in a roundtable discussion to explore how we each home Black feminist performance in our work. We offer “homing” as an organizing concept. It does dual work. First, homing recalls a placemaking practice or a praxis of becoming and belonging using the knowing-doing body to create, disrupt, or transform space. Second, homing denotes a return to radical joy and make-do pragmatism rooted in Black feminism that relies on the k…
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Autoethnography (4 works) · Black feminism (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)