Abstract

In this special issue, entitled “Black women Improvisations: Shifting Methodological (Mis)understandings within and Across Boundaries,” we feature five articles that demonstrate how Black women as researchers, theorists, and/or research participants (re)locate themselves as outsiders-within qualitative research traditions. Authors ponder Black women's interconnectivity as a methodological framing to illuminate how dominant qualitative research at times has been incommensurable, insufficient, and hostile to Black women and women of color. Often performing improvisations, free-styles, and cyphers, Black women's interconnectivity opens ways of knowing and understanding the (im)possibilities of qualitative methodologies that have remained underexplored or dismissed as non-scholarly.

摘要

在这个题为“黑人女性即兴表演：在边界内和跨边界转移方法论（错误）理解”的特刊中，我们精选了五篇文章，展示了作为研究人员、理论家和/或研究参与者的黑人女性如何（重新）将自己定位为局外人——在定性研究传统中。作者将黑人女性的相互联系视为一种方法论框架，以阐明占主导地位的定性研究有时对黑人女性和有色人种女性是如何无法衡量、不足和敌对的。黑人女性经常进行即兴创作、自由风格和密码，开启了了解和理解定性方法的（不）可能性的方式，这些方法仍然未被充分探索或被认为是非学术性的。