Celebrate our first Black Women's HerStory Month Lecture with the聽Center for African & African American Studies (CAAAS) as we explore聽Black storytelling, Afrofuturism, and womanism's role in qualitative research.聽聽Professor Stephanie Toliver will guide us through understanding the impact of Black storytelling聽passed from generation to generation that聽continues聽to teach, to heal, and to bring life despite enslavement, Jim Crow, and state-sanctioned violence.
Using her recently released book, "Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research," Toliver聽centers聽Black girls & women in聽considering聽the ethical responsibility of researchers to focus upon the words of our participants, not only as a means to better understand our historic and current world, but to better situate inquiry for what the future world and future research could look like.聽
S. R. Toliver is an assistant professor of Literacy and Secondary Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder whose scholarship centers the freedom dreams of Black youth and honors the historical legacy that Black imaginations have had and will have on activism and social change. She is the author of聽Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research: Endarkened Storywork, and her academic work has been published in several journals, including聽Journal of Literacy Research聽and聽Research in the Teaching of English.
