Mary E Weems
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3887628 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mary E Weems |
| PRENOMES | Mary E |
| SOBRENOME | Weems |
| ASSINATURA | WEEMS M E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | John Carroll University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
“Still Hanging? A Revisitation of Ghosts From the Past and the (Re)Authorization of Human Dignity in Americanism ( or Motions of Discovery )”
In this project, the two authors further theorize on a collaborative spiriting-writing activity that pivots on the public story of a Black male body found “hung/hanging” near a public roadway in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In three movements, the authors tease through politics of the happening in relation to a history of hanging Black bodies against the backdrop of the current race-based political climate in the United States, with wholesale commentary…
“I Thought It Was Going to Be Simple, But It Wasn’t
The performative essay, constructed through a method of collaborative spirit-writing, teases through three textual encounters: Trump’s public statement that the 1960 Civil Rights Act led to white people being very badly treated ; the experience of two Black subjects at airport security that become analogous to the surveillance of national borders, and the politics of race and the materiality of bodies in the United States. All making an argument …
Black Poetic Inquiry
The poems in this project were written within a 24‐hour period of each other and are presented in order of their appearance for the month of January 2024. Written as a call and response to each other, the poems are at times direct responses in content and form, or a mediation on what the offering triggered in the other. Using poetry writing as a methodological engagement with the reflective and reflexive attributes of autoethnography, this projec…
Dear Norman
This autoethnographic response written in letter form to the late, Norman K. Denzin reflects the author's admiration, respect and love for a professor, dissertation chair and colleague
What’s Found in Loss
Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet
Theme Introduction to Special Issue
The essays in this Special Issue respond in part to a call to acknowledge the multiple crises we now face: the global covid-19 virus pandemic; natural disasters caused by climate change and more. The essays call for a critical collaborative engagement over issues of trauma and survival, to build new templates of sociality towards progressive futures
Taking the Pulse
This performative dialogue focuses on the authors’ collaborative process in constructing the Special Issue— “June 12, 2016: Terrorism and Hate in Orlando, America (Poetic and Performative Responses),” Qualitative Inquiry, 23.7: 483-571
Loss and found
Loss and Found is an autoethnographic, performative text which contextualizes Black mother/daughter relationships from a collective, cultural perspective informed by race, gender and class in the midst of life altering grief. The work is written in two reflexive voices that reflect the experiences of a bi-polar daughter and worried mother on a journey through what it means to deal with mental illness, homelessness and suicide surrounded by the si…
Love
Love Mary Weems (bio) I keep trying to get him to take herbal pillshe has no interest in worry daily about places in his arteriesforced open by man-placed mesh each winter I buy him gloveshe never wears nights I wait till he’s fast asleepmemorize his snoring patternskiss his headtake off his glassesclean, then put them where I knowhe’ll reach for them pray each day he’ll outlive meso I don’t have to rememberwhat it was like to be alonein the dark…
Room 329
Rm. 329 chronicles an unexpected experience during a playwriting residency at a Cleveland, Ohio arts school. It's an exemplar of what's possible when student activists organize to protest against institutional racism and for education as the practice of freedom
June 12, 2016
Epilogue
Sense
Make America Great Again
The Value of a Realist Understanding of Causality for Qualitative Research
More than Enough
I wrote this for Bird as a response to the Sweetwater panel I both witnessed and participated in at the 10th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry conference at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. As the editor of the Peter Lang book series “What's Going On: Black Studies and the Arts,” I had a particular interest in immersing myself in this tribute to one of my authors. The poem is both an investigation of and reflection of tha…
Love, Peace, and Soooooul
The Fire This Time (TFTT), a Black writers' collaboration which uses multiple genres of writing as our method is grounded in what Don Cornelius used to call Love, Peace, and Soul. Love, because our love for writing and the complexities and challenges of the Black experience, coupled with a passion for connecting with other Black scholars in ways that have the potential for making a difference in the world, is at the heart of this work. Peace, bec…
Sadie Stories
In their seminal work Poetic Inquiry: Vibrant Voices in the Social Sciences, Prendergast et al. (Citation2009) point out that: “[t]he need for a plurality of methods that can be applied to individual research projects on the human condition has never had a stronger calling than it does now ... [p]oetic methods are qualitative and call for self-conscious participation ... with life as lived, up close and personal ...” (xi). As a language artist-sc…
For Trayvon Martin
Continuing Laurel Richardson's call to use writing as my method and specifically utilizing poetic inquiry, 'For Trayvon Martin' represents my interpretation of this tragedy filtered through a lens shaped by an epistemology of color, the history of racism, and local and national news reports both in print and on-line, as well as informal conversations with a wide variety of family, friends, and colleagues. The work's theoretical frame incorporates…
Sun Dance
Race Is *Not* an Additive
Continuing Laurel Richardson's call to use writing as my method (1994, 2000) Race is 'not' an additive uses the African American woman author's experience during a visit to a lynching memorial to frame a discussion about racism in the United States, including whether or not this country is post-racial since the election of President Barack Obama
Speak Truth and Shame the Devil
This ethnodrama examines how two African American women experience racism in the academe. Both scholars examine the social/political context of racism in higher education and its manifestation in institutional practices. Both authors seek to “speak truth and shame the devil” by examining institutional responses to the racism they encounter in their courses. The authors conclude by sharing how educational leaders, particularly chairs, deans, and o…
Rhyme Scheme
Till the Well Runs
Speak Truth and Shame the Devil
This ethnodrama examines how two African American women experience racism in the academe. Both scholars examine the social/political context of racism in higher education and its manifestation in institutional practices. Both authors seek to “speak truth and shame the devil” by examining institutional responses to the racism they encounter in their courses. The authors conclude by sharing how educational leaders, particularly chairs, deans, and o…
Sense
Make America Great Again
Theme Introduction to Special Issue
The essays in this Special Issue respond in part to a call to acknowledge the multiple crises we now face: the global covid-19 virus pandemic; natural disasters caused by climate change and more. The essays call for a critical collaborative engagement over issues of trauma and survival, to build new templates of sociality towards progressive futures
Loss and found
Loss and Found is an autoethnographic, performative text which contextualizes Black mother/daughter relationships from a collective, cultural perspective informed by race, gender and class in the midst of life altering grief. The work is written in two reflexive voices that reflect the experiences of a bi-polar daughter and worried mother on a journey through what it means to deal with mental illness, homelessness and suicide surrounded by the si…
June 12, 2016
Epilogue
Love, Peace, and Soooooul
The Fire This Time (TFTT), a Black writers' collaboration which uses multiple genres of writing as our method is grounded in what Don Cornelius used to call Love, Peace, and Soul. Love, because our love for writing and the complexities and challenges of the Black experience, coupled with a passion for connecting with other Black scholars in ways that have the potential for making a difference in the world, is at the heart of this work. Peace, bec…
Sadie Stories
In their seminal work Poetic Inquiry: Vibrant Voices in the Social Sciences, Prendergast et al. (Citation2009) point out that: “[t]he need for a plurality of methods that can be applied to individual research projects on the human condition has never had a stronger calling than it does now ... [p]oetic methods are qualitative and call for self-conscious participation ... with life as lived, up close and personal ...” (xi). As a language artist-sc…
For Trayvon Martin
Continuing Laurel Richardson's call to use writing as my method and specifically utilizing poetic inquiry, 'For Trayvon Martin' represents my interpretation of this tragedy filtered through a lens shaped by an epistemology of color, the history of racism, and local and national news reports both in print and on-line, as well as informal conversations with a wide variety of family, friends, and colleagues. The work's theoretical frame incorporates…
Heartbeats
One of the ways to participate as change agents in the struggle toward a true participatory global democracy is constructing spaces in which to communicate across race, ethnicity, religion, class, and culture. This collaborative, auto/ethnographic performance text was started during a pre-conference workshop titled "Heartbeats: Writing Performance Texts," I designed and facilitated with the help of my colleague Carolyne J. White. The purpose of t…
Black Madonna
Windows
Poetry
Poetry
Windows
My Tuesdays With Morrie
Mitch Albom's book, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson (1997), entered the poet's life during a time when death and terminal illness were affecting her immediate family and one of her closest friends. This life-affirming case study, the result of a series of taped conversations between Albom and his beloved undergraduate professor, the late Morrie Schwartz, represents good art in the Deweyian sense because it…
Three Wishes
Reflections
My Monster's Ball
Good Years of Life
Universe Music
Poetry
Not in Our Name
Born out of anger and frustration with the Bush administration's unilateral intervention in Iraq and the attendant mediated responses to such action that question the patriotism of peace activists and those who dare speak out against the draconian neoconservative agenda currently dominating American cultural politics, "Not in Our Name!" marks an ongoing conversation about and critical interrogation of the post-9/11 moment. Re/presented as a symbo…
Peace on Earth, Give Peace a Chance
The Difference Between a Pair of Manicure Scissors and Freedom
Blues Clues
Numbers
The United States of America has had a long history of stigmatizing the issue of mental health. The current push in and outside social organizations to break the silence around mental health is beginning to make inroads toward positive social change, but we are a long way from conquering the negative stereotypes that adversely affect the lives of millions of people. This play was written in response to a lived experience during a walk through a c…
Collateral Damage
The Color of Fear
This auto/ethnographic performance text is my critical response to Lee Mun Wah's documentary The Color of Fear. The film records one focus group's weekend long journey to face their fears regarding racism and sexism. To create the piece, I watched the film with a group of students and noted lines of dialogue I wanted to include in my response. I share it in the hope that it will inspire more people to begin to face their own fears around issues o…
Black Madonna
Voodoo Formula
Happy to Nappy but Not a Ho
I’m hearing words reduced to Imus alone strike the screen over and over—I think bullshit, bullets, bamboozled wish for Malcolm’s response, Angela Davis’s words, hear the screams of millions of women fire forged in pain that covers me like cloth, takes me back to when most Black women were ashamed of their hair, kept pressing combs in drawers by the stove kept their kitchens smooth, their hair straight as white women rushed to beauty shops to make…
W
This autoethnographic text takes a critical look at the aftermath of the George W. Bush era from an African American female's, lived experience perspective. It references three specific and unforgettable defining moments: No Child Left Behind, The War on Terror and Hurricane Katrina
Heartbeats
One of the ways to participate as change agents in the struggle toward a true participatory global democracy is constructing spaces in which to communicate across race, ethnicity, religion, class, and culture. This collaborative, auto/ethnographic performance text was started during a pre-conference workshop titled "Heartbeats: Writing Performance Texts," I designed and facilitated with the help of my colleague Carolyne J. White. The purpose of t…
Speak Truth and Shame the Devil
This ethnodrama examines how two African American women experience racism in the academe. Both scholars examine the social/political context of racism in higher education and its manifestation in institutional practices. Both authors seek to “speak truth and shame the devil” by examining institutional responses to the racism they encounter in their courses. The authors conclude by sharing how educational leaders, particularly chairs, deans, and o…
Rhyme Scheme
Till the Well Runs
Sociology (34 obras) · Art (25 obras) · Philosophy (23 obras) · Philosophy (20 obras) · Gender Studies (19 obras) · Aesthetics (18 obras) · Epistemology (18 obras) · Psychology (16 obras) · Gender Studies (14 obras) · Literature (13 obras)