ERIC Number: EJ1399833
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0951-8398
EISSN: EISSN-1366-5898
Remembering My Memories: Black Feminist Memory Work as a Visual Research Method of Inquiry
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v36 n9 p1856-1875 2023
Broadly, this article details the imbrication of a Black feminist qualitative researcher's onto-epistemology and data (meta-) analysis process. I theorize "Black feminist memory work," then apply this method by returning to data I collected for a completed research project and meshing those data with a curated selection of thematically connected family photographs. By revisiting and reviewing textual and visual data, I demonstrate the function of Black feminist memory work as a visual research method with which to not only describe, analyze, and interpret evocative photographs, but also excavate and make meaning of the sometimes repressed and oftentimes emotion-laden episodic and autobiographical memories that inevitably surface when conducting qualitative research. I conclude by underscoring how this tool creates opportunities for qualitative researchers to address the ontological concerns that connect qualitative inquiry to Black feminists' humanistic hopes.
Descriptors: African Americans, Feminism, Females, Researchers, Memory, Qualitative Research, Photography
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Language: English
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