Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism: Narrative Analysis for Social Change

ISBN-13: 9781032606606 / Angielski

Simone Drake; James Phelan; Robyn Warhol

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Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism  puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem. 

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Part I. Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism

Chapter 1. “I Keep Most White People at a Distance”

Ronda Henry Anthony

Chapter 2. “I Would Love to Have Had that Conversation with Him”

Scotia Brown

Chapter 3. “Something I Never Recovered From”

Mary Bullock

Chapter 4. “Women of Color Really Have to Understand, or Overstand”

Stephanie Caraway

Chapter 5. “No One Even Knows the Real Story”

Destiny Faceson

Chapter 6. “At that Moment I Felt—Dismissed”

Felicia Haney

Chapter 7. “I Was Never Considered an Asset to their Company in the First Place”

Lucrezia Hatfield

Chapter 8. “Racism Has Truly Shaped My Choices and How I Act”

Latoya Hale Tahirou

Part II. Introduction to the Narrative Analyses of the Women’s Stories

Chapter 9.

Simone Drake. Testifyin’ and Signifyin’: Black Women’s Narratives on Navigating Structural Racism in Central Indiana

Chapter 10. She Was Not Heard: Personal Narratives that Tackle Structural Racism

Robyn Warhol

Chapter 11. Metacognition and Miscommunication: Interpreting Metacognitive Monitoring in African-American Women’s Storytelling

Lisa Zunshine.

Chapter 12. Rhetorical Listening: Character, Progression, and Fictionality in African American Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism

Jim Phelan

Appendix: Storytelling Prompts Provided by the Researchers

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Simone Drake, Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University is executive producer of Shutdown (2023) and author or editor of Critical Appropriation: African American Woman and the Construction of Transnational Identity (2014), When We Imagine Grace: Black Men and Subject Making (2016), Are You Entertained?: Black Popular Culture in the 21^st Century (2020), and The Oxford Handbook of African American Women’s Writing (2024).

James Phelan, Distinguished University Professor of English at Ohio State University is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over twenty books, including Somebody Telling Somebody Else (2017) and Narrative Medicine: A Rhetorical Rx (2023). He has been editor of Narrative since its inception in 1993. 

Robyn Warhol, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University has recently published The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories (2018), co-edited with Zara Dinnen; Narrative Theory Unbound (2015), co-edited with Susan S. Lanser; and Love Among the Archives (2015), co-authored with Helena Michie.

Lisa Zunshine, Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, is a former Guggenheim fellow and the author or editor of twelve books, including Getting Inside Your Head (2012), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (2015), and The Secret Life of Literature (2022).