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Made available in DSpace on 2012-06-27T21:31:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Linear_Taylor-Imani.pdf: 146765 bytes, checksum: a57f152bfa1880bf6907a99f5f0004b7 (MD5) license.txt: 4063 bytes, checksum: f08ccf3991293505c36b85fb46ec9967 (MD5) Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by William Ingram (wingram2@illinois.edu) on 2012-06-27T21:32:47Z Item is restricted until 2014-06-27T21:32:23Z A letter to a black girl: reflections on being born black and female text Item reinstated by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2014-06-28T10:00:28Z Item was in collections: Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois (ID: 204) Dissertations and Theses - College of Education (ID: 434) No. of bitstreams: 2 Linear_Taylor-Imani.pdf: 146765 bytes, checksum: a57f152bfa1880bf6907a99f5f0004b7 (MD5) license.txt: 4063 bytes, checksum: f08ccf3991293505c36b85fb46ec9967 (MD5) Item released from any restrictions by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2014-06-28T10:00:28Z http://hdl.handle.net/2142/32064 en Copyright 2012 Taylor-Imani Linear Black Feminism Narrative Brown, Ruth N. Linear, Taylor-Imani 2012-06-27T21:31:11Z 2014-06-28T10:00:28Z 2012-05 2012-06-27T21:31:11Z 2012-05 This thesis serves as an exploration of my personal lived experiences and contextualizes them within broader discourses of Black Feminist Thought. The purpose of this paper is to interrogate what my lived experiences say about the culture of being marked in a body that is Black and female (Brown, 2009). Supported by literature on meaning making based off of lived experience, this paper outlines specific life events and situates them within Black Feminist Theory, and standpoint theory. Patricia Collins, a contemporary scholar of Black Feminist Thought theorizes that “ Black feminist literary criticism, Black women’s history, and Black cultural studies all remain centered on Black women’s subjectivity or “voice”, [which] contain space for Black women intellectuals to draw upon their own experiences as touchstones for developing race, class, an gender intersectionality”—which are often exemplified in personal narrative, stories and critical social theory (Collins, 1998, pp. 119). What is significant about this research is the connection that is made between lived experience and theory—thus establishing a methodology for culturally and personally relevant scholarship. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2012-04-26T19:58:00Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Linear_Taylor-Imani.docx: 62323 bytes, checksum: a106746ebcdbca69382106b8e82aa119 (MD5) Linear_Taylor-Imani.pdf: 146893 bytes, checksum: 5a43f52e79058846b08385393ae3a4c2 (MD5) Methodology Lived Experience Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrsh 1760 Educational Policy Studies 0220 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A. PHD:Educ Policy Studies -UIUC 10KS0220PHD