She-Search: The Fertile Ground of Black Indigenous Methods (BIM) in Qualitative Inquiry
Dados Bibliográficos
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AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
ANO | 2025 |
TIPO | Artigo |
PERIÓDICO | Qualitative Inquiry |
ISSN | 1077-8004 |
E-ISSN | 1552-7565 |
EDITORA | Annual Reviews (United States) |
DOI | 10.1177/10778004241269997 |
ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
Resumo
Educational research methodologies are often situated in the onto-epistemologies of patriarchal whiteness. Lacking critical emotionality, these designs repress human instinct for the fallacy of scientific objectivity. The life-giving methods and methodologies employed by many Black women educational researchers oppose these positivist designs. In this context guided by our collective 'she-searches,' we conceptualize Black indigenous methods (BIMs). Engaging in the Black feminist tradition of storytelling, we recount our application of Black indigenous interview method by 'she-telling' our lived raced and gendered experiences with our communities. Thus, we unearth the fertile ground of BIM and offer insight into our methodological sense-making for researchers.