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Qualitative researchers often engage inquiry with attention to the mind, a bit to the body, and scant attention to the spirit, ignoring the complex role that our inner lives play in conducting research. Black/endarkened feminist scholars center (re)search as an academic, political, and spiritual endeavor that necessitates the ethical practice of (re)membering, Thus, acknowledging spirit is at the center of inquiry, a tool of survival, and self-definition against enduring anti-Black oppressions and structures. This article explores how Black women (re)searchers who (re)member the spirit in qualitative (re)search can articulate new questions of qualitative (re)search centered on race, personhood, and spirit.

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African American studies ethnicity and race Afrocentric feminist epistemologies feminist methodologies methodologies re-thinking critical theory methods of inquiry

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Still Following Our North Star: The Necessity of Black Women’s Spiritual (Re)Membering in Qualitative (Re)search

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