Critical Ethnography And Education

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by Dennis Beach (Editor), Carl Bagley (Editor), Sofia Marques da Silva (Editor)

This work is an intervention of self-representation that explores experiences of five Black mothers of the same Chicago elementary school with respect to their relationship with the author – a qualitative researcher – over a period of two years. Black feminist epistemology is the framework that directed this project, fieldwork, and interpretation of the findings. Additionally, this work employs tools of poetry, counternarratives, and critical ethnography.