Performing Black ademics
An Artful Inquiry of Black Scholarly Reimaginings in Qualitative Research Through Quilting Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2387261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shawn S Savage (0000-0001-8658-9925, University of North Carolina Wilmington), Julia A Lynch (0000-0001-6457-620X, University of North Carolina Wilmington), Julia Lynch (0000-0001-9181-3039) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10778004251316195 |
| OpenAlex | W4408480872 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
This article unpacks ongoing artful inquiry into our experiences as Black academics who center Sankofa sensibilities in our research and writing. Specifically, we conceptualize quilting performance as artful inquiry. Drawing on artful inquiry as a mode of thinking that informs multiple qualitative approaches, we co-construct an ongoing quilt that we co-perform as we navigate higher education. Thus, this article discusses quilting performance as a fluid iteration of artful inquiry that allows us to flow within, through, and beyond the research process, as discussed in this issue. We frame five phases of quilting performance as artful inquiry: (a) gathering patches of fabric , (b) grabbing the needle , (c) threading the needle and connecting the patches of fabric , (d) removing excessive fabric and threads , and (e) finalizing and using the quilt . Following this process, we provide insights into a Black aesthetic of quilting performance as metaphoric and embodied (then digitized) enactments of artful inquiry
Aesthetics · Art · Construct (python library · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Frame (networking · Lived experience · Qualitative research · Quilt · Quilting · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Art Education and Development · Computer Science · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
Decolonizing Educational Research
Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research
“Wholeness Is No Trifling Matter”
Voices, Silences, and Telling Secrets
Black Feminism in Qualitative Inquiry
Listening to Images
The Emergence of Sankofa Practice in the United States
Finding their way
Epistemic exclusion
Melanin messages
Quiltmaking among African-American women as a pedagogy of care, empowerment, and sisterhood
Historically White Universities and Plantation Politics
Christina Sharpe, In the Wake
Be Real Black for Me
Mapping violence, naming life
An Introduction to Critical Arts-Based Research
Artful Inquiry
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |