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Date of Graduation
12-16-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
School of Communication Studies
Advisor(s)
Melissa Alemán
Michael Broderick
Carlos Alemán
Abstract
This thesis is a Black Feminist Critical Autoethnography that talks back (hooks, 1989). I use autoethnographic methods to unpack memories and trauma of my experience of being a part of a predominantly white institution (PWI) and a resident of a community in which the institution resides, and whiteness transcends. I incorporate Black Feminist Thought (BFT) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) as theoretical frameworks to enable counter storytelling to disrupt white, hegemonic ways of being. My evocative narratives, poems, and short vignettes provide a lens in which it means for me to be a Black woman in a community that has done everything to push against my existence.
Recommended Citation
Diggs, Kimberly, "Talking back to white systems of power: A black feminist critical autoethnography" (2023). Masters Theses, 2020-current. 245.
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/masters202029/245
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