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Horizons of Home and Hope: A Qualitative Exploration of the Educational Experiences and Identities of Black Transnational Women

Burkhard, Tanja Jennifer
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4960-676X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1493670254322014

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, EDU Teaching and Learning.
In this qualitative dissertation study, I will develop a theoretical framing that can be used for a deep and contextualized exploration of the experiences and narratives of Black transnational women within and outside of educational spaces. Positing that these experiences and narratives are shaped by settler colonialism/colonialism, racism, and heteropatriarchy, the goal of this study is to better understand Black transnational women’s narratives, stories, and experiences as connected to their languages, identities, and literacy practices. Doing so allows me to theorize their narratives, stories, and experiences by considering the complexities of anti-black racism, heterosexism, and colonialism both in their home countries and in the United States. In the hopes of contributing to the emerging body of work on the anticolonialism in knowledge production and education (Emeagwali & Dei, 2014; Kempf, 2009), as well as the notion of transnational identities and ways of being, meaning, as occupying multiple spaces simultaneously (Miron, 2014), this study is guided by the following research questions: (1) What lessons about the construction of race and gender can be learned from Black transnational/immigrant women? (2) What larger contexts impact the lives, identities, and educational experiences of Black transnational women (3) What hopes, fears, and/or goals drive the educational pursuits of Black transnational women? (4) What specific struggles do these women face when trying to access sites of formal education? Based on these questions, I will draw on Black and transnational feminist theories, critical literacy studies, and anti-and decolonial theories to explore the ways in which the English language, spoken and written, can be used to facilitate social justice for Black transnational women. To explore these questions, I conducted a series of conversational, in-depth interviews with each of the 7 adult immigrant women (ages 25-35) in this study. Each women self-identified as Black in the context of the United States, and have had to reckon with their positionality and changing identities within U.S. educational spaces.
Valerie Kinloch (Advisor)
Mytheli Sreenivas (Committee Member)
Candace Stout (Committee Member)
Cynthia Tyson (Committee Member)
249 p.
Education; Womens Studies
Education; Black Transnational Women; Anticolonial Approaches; Critical Literacy; Qualitative Research; Transnational Methodologies; Scholarly Personal Narrative

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  • Burkhard, T. J. (2017). Horizons of Home and Hope: A Qualitative Exploration of the Educational Experiences and Identities of Black Transnational Women [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1493670254322014

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Burkhard, Tanja. Horizons of Home and Hope: A Qualitative Exploration of the Educational Experiences and Identities of Black Transnational Women . 2017. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1493670254322014.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Burkhard, Tanja. "Horizons of Home and Hope: A Qualitative Exploration of the Educational Experiences and Identities of Black Transnational Women ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1493670254322014

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