Researching Race Series
The Researching Race Series is professional development for academics and autodidacts interested in learning about race, racism and research. Sessions will include topics ranging from theoretical frameworks and framing, methodologies, epistemological and ontological positioning, subject selection, writing, dissertation, and research.
"Black Ancestral Text Analysis"
Featuring: Latoya M. Teague, PhD, Brown University and Mariama N. Nagbe, PhD, University of Southern California
Presentation Abstract
Qualitative research urges a closer viewing of texts to uncover/recover ancestral wisdoms within them. In this presentation, we foreground Black Ancestral Text Analysis as a method for excavating ancestral wisdoms and warnings from the silences in text. Through practical applications of our research protocol, we invite the audience to meditate on what the silences offer to enrich our understandings of race, Blackness, and the ancestral in research that engages Black history and ways of knowing. The presentation concludes with a reflection on the ethics of care for archival recovery.
Latoya M. Teague, PhD
Mariama N. Nagbe, PhD
