Black Women Acting Against the Extremes of Visibility in the Academy
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Keywords

Black women faculty
hyper/invisibility
sister circles
healing arts methodologies
culturally informed interventions
Forum Theatre

How to Cite

Roberts, L., Nkrumah, T., Migueliz Valcarlos, M. and Agosto, V. (2022) “Black Women Acting Against the Extremes of Visibility in the Academy”, Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education, 2(2), pp. 116–137. doi: 10.21423/jaawge-v2i2a118.

Abstract

Black women faculty building their academic lives can be treated as or made to feel invisible (i.e., ignored) or hypervisible (i.e., overly scrutinized). Subsequent harms can follow, such as stress, insecurity, power/voicelessness, and job attrition. Through the fusing of sister circles focus groups with Theatre of the Oppressed Forum Theatre, we explored how five Black women faculty confronted issues related to visibility utilizing this culturally informed critical arts-based methodology. Through introspection and performance, they brought in elder wisdom, and through rehearsal and performance, they left with shared knowledge on how to mediate at the extremes of visibility to improve their academic lives. We discuss the findings and their implications for academic healing via culturally responsive arts-based interventions and methodologies.

https://doi.org/10.21423/jaawge-v2i2a118
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