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Who Can Speak For Whom? Using Counter-Storytelling To Challenge Racial Hegemony, Lisa R. Merriweather Hunn, Talmadge C. Guy, Elaine Mangliitz Jul 2006

Who Can Speak For Whom? Using Counter-Storytelling To Challenge Racial Hegemony, Lisa R. Merriweather Hunn, Talmadge C. Guy, Elaine Mangliitz

Adult Education Research Conference

Dialogues of socially significant forms of human difference such as race are constrained by hegemony. Critical Race Theory’s counter-storytelling is explored as a means of challenging the majoritarian stories that reinforce racial hegemony in the dominant discourse.


Stitched From The Soul: An Auto/Biographical Inquiry Into One Black Woman Administrator's Voice And Vision, Sonya D. Jefferson Jan 2006

Stitched From The Soul: An Auto/Biographical Inquiry Into One Black Woman Administrator's Voice And Vision, Sonya D. Jefferson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Author's abstract: This study is an auto/biographical inquiry into my voice and vision as a Black woman administrator. I explore the lives of four generations of Black women in my family. Each of these women -- Hattie C. Wilcher (my great grandmother), Connie W. Duggan (my mother), Danielle R. Lowe (my daughter), and I -- have studied and/or taught in public schools in the U. S. south. I explore how my family narrative parallels community and historical narratives and contests the meta narrative in existing literature. I explore these narratives through the lenses of Critical Race Theory and Black Feminist …