Poetic Labors and Challenging Political Science
An Epistolary Poem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6409485 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (0000-0002-8312-6893, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 228-235 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0195-7732 • E-ISSN: 1540-9473 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1554477x.2019.1565465 |
| OpenAlex | W3033109534 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
The author, a political theorist, uses poetry to reflect on and spur structural change in admissions committees, hiring committees, funding decisions, curriculum development, and the institutionalized awards-making structure regarding African Politics in the American Political Science Association. This poem, delivered and performed at the American Political Science Association 2018 meeting in Boston, provides empirical and verifiable data about how scholarly awards are distributed in the discipline. The analysis of this process reflects on a long history of erasing, minimizing, and tokenizing the scholarship of African political scientists in the discipline of political science. Written as an epistolary poem, the author explains how #MeToo accounts for complex and interrelated forms of exclusion from the production of knowledge and uses the history of Black women in politics associations, writings by Patricia J. Williams, Pearl T. Robinson, Darlene Miller, and poetry by June Jordan (1936–2002) and Sweet Honey in the Rock (f. 1973
Art · Craft · Literature · Miller · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Social and Cultural Dynamics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |