Still Following Our North Star

The Necessity of Black Women’s Spiritual (Re)Membering in Qualitative (Re)search

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ID19004985
AuthorsC B Dillard (0000-0003-0952-7792, University of Georgia, Athens, USA, corresponding author), Amber Neal, Amber M Neal (University of Georgia, Athens, USA)
Year2021
Volume27
Issue10
Pages1182-1190
Publication date2021-06-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10778004211021809
OpenAlexW3168229551
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited5

Qualitative researchers often engage inquiry with attention to the mind, a bit to the body, and scant attention to the spirit, ignoring the complex role that our inner lives play in conducting research. Black/endarkened feminist scholars center (re)search as an academic, political, and spiritual endeavor that necessitates the ethical practice of (re)membering, Thus, acknowledging spirit is at the center of inquiry, a tool of survival, and self-definition against enduring anti-Black oppressions and structures. This article explores how Black women (re)searchers who (re)member the spirit in qualitative (re)search can articulate new questions of qualitative (re)search centered on race, personhood, and spirit

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Personhood · Politics · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Spirituality · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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