Book/Printed Material Black women's stories of everyday racism : narrative analysis for social change

Title

• Black women's stories of everyday racism : narrative analysis for social change

Summary

• "Black Women's Stories of Everyday Racism puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem. The book calls attention to African American women's everyday experiences with systemic racism and demonstrates how four types of narrative theory can help generate strategies to explain and dismantle that racism. This volume presents fifteen stories told by eight midwestern African American women about their own experiences with casual and structural racism, followed by four detailed narratological analyses of the stories, each representing a different approach to narrative interpretation. The book makes a case for the need to hear the personal stories of these women and others like them as part of a larger effort to counter the systemic racism that prevails in the United States today. Readers will find that the women's stories offer powerful evidence that African Americans experience racism as an inescapable part of their day-to-day lives--and sometimes as a force that radically changes their lives. The stories provide experience-based demonstrations of how pervasive systemic racism is and how it perpetuates power differentials that are baked into institutions such as schools, law enforcement, the health care system, and business. Containing countless signs of the stress and trauma that accompany and follow from experiences of racism, the stories reveal evidence of the women's resilience as well as their unending need for it, as they continue to feel the negative effects of experiences that occurred many years ago. The four interpretive chapters note the complex skill involved in the women's storytelling. The analyses also point to the overall value of telling these stories: how they are sometimes cathartic for the tellers; how they highlight the importance of listening-and the likelihood of misunderstanding-and how, if they and other stories like them were heard more often, they would be a force to counteract the structural racism they so graphically expose"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

• Drake, Simone C., 1975- author
• Phelan, James, 1951- author
• Warhol, Robyn R., author
• Zunshine, Lisa, author

Created / Published

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Headings

• -  African American women--Middle West--Social conditions
• -  African Americans--Middle West--Social conditions
• -  Racism--Middle West
• -  Discourse analysis, Narrative--Middle West
• -  Middle West--Race relations

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

• 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

• E185.915

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2023050243

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2023050243

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

• epub
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2023050243

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