Oral Narrative Research with Black Women Collecting Treasures [Paperback]

Oral narrative researchers from a range of disciplines present their personal portraits on the methodological strategies they have found useful in bringing the experiences of African and African American women into full view. This insightful and thought-provoking resource explores in detail: how new information about African women is being created; the strengths of oral narrative research for expanding and transforming knowledge about black women; and how carrying out oral history research has affected the researchers' personal and professional lives.Oral narrative researchers from a range of disciplines present their personal portraits on the methodological strategies they have found useful in bringing the experiences of African and African American women into full view. This insightful and thought-provoking resource explores in detail: how new information about African women is being created; the strengths of oral narrative research for expanding and transforming knowledge about black women; and how carrying out oral history research has affected the researchers' personal and professional lives.Introduction - Kim Marie Vaz
Oral Narrative Research with Black Women
PART ONE: Ancestor Mothers
Ophelia and Me - Martia Graham Goodson
Tribute to an Early Narrative Researcher
Professions of Faith - Joycelyn Moody
A Teacher Reflects on Women, Race, Church, and Spirit
PART TWO: RESEARCH PROCESSES: GIVING VOICE
What Do Women Know?...As I was saying! - Christine Obbo
You Haven't Seen Anything Until You Make a Black Woman Mad - Arlene Hambrick
Oral History - Georgia W Brown
Louisiana Black Women's Memoirs
PART THREE: RESEARCH PROCESSES: HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Talking about Sex and HIV - Renee T White
Conceptualizing a New Sociology of Experience
Methodological Issues in Triangulation - Jacqueline A Waló6