Oral Narrative Research with Black Women

Collecting Treasures
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-8039-7428-9
Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 554 g

This book consists of essays on methodological issues by Africana (African and African American) women scholars who have successfully employed oral narrative methods in their research. Some themes covered in these essays are the strengths of oral narrative research for expanding and transforming knowledge about black women and how these scholars learned to conduct oral narrative research; descriptions of the types of narratives they have gathered, the difficulties they have encountered and how these were overcome; and the ethical dilemmas faced while undertaking their research endeavors. What makes this book a valuable teaching tool are the pedagogical suggestions and research artifacts contained within. Contributors have described one or two activities that may assist instructorÆs efforts to teach oral narrative methodologies. Methodological essays about the phenomenological and empirical aspects of carrying out oral narrative research from an Afrafeminist/womanist standpoint are rare and book-length works are almost nonexistent. Oral Narrative Research with black women participates in the growing movement of Afrafeminist/womanist scholarship that fills this void. This is an insightful, thought-provoking resource for researchers, students, and scholars interested in conducting qualitative research or who want to include black women in their research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vaz, Kim Marie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Walcott-McQuigg
Measuring Weight Control Behavior of African American Women
Where Have all the Nice Old Ladies Gone? - Claudia J Gollop
Researching the Health Information-Seeking Behavior of Older African American Women
African American Women and the Emergence of Self-Will - Elizabeth A Peterson
A Report on the Use of Phenomenological Research
PART FOUR: RESEARCH PROCESSES: NEGOTIATING INSTITUTIONS
Reconstructing the History of Musicians' Protective Union Local 274 through Oral Narrative Method - Diane D Turner
Methodological Considerations in Field Research - Patricia Green-Powell
Six Case Studies
Social Conformity and Social Resistance - Kim Marie Vaz
Women's Perspectives on `Women's Place'
European American and African American Men and Women's Valuations of Feminist and Natural Science Methods in Psychology - Leslie Ann Kingman