Let Steadfastness Have Its Full Effect: (Re)Membering (Re)Search and Endarkened Feminisms From Ananse to Asantewaa

Abstract

In this article, I return to a previously published work to reflect on the moral, methodological, and spiritual imperatives of qualitative inquiry for Black feminist researchers. Marshaling the West African icons of Ananse and Yaa Asantewaa, this article illuminates how racism and sexism always already position the Black woman scholar as both (re)searcher and (re)searched in both sites of inquiry and as objects under study. This article makes visible the “evidence of things unseen” to recognize the oft invisible labor, gatekeeping, in/exclusions and challenges in doing/being racialized work, and the consequences in life and research careers for Black women scholars.

Keywords

ethnicity and race indigenous approaches to knowledge afrocentric feminist epistemologies feminist methodologies methodologies critical pedagogy pedagogy Ghana

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