ABSTRACT
In Black Feminism in Qualitative Inquiry: A Mosaic for Writing Our Daughter’s Body, I catechize qualitative inquiry from a critical race analysis and Black feminist/womanist interpretation of the social world. On the one hand, I admittedly enjoy reading traditional academic qualitative texts that attempt to define qualitative concepts, paradigmatic traditions, and shifts, and quixotically explain methodologies. On the other hand, I find a sense of pleasure in reading non-traditional qualitative texts that inscribe the written word to introduce audiences to a research study, research participants involved in the study, and the social context of the study. I am emphatically stimulated, intellectually and aesthetically, by qualitative presentations that use the written word to mentally place the reader in the physical environment where the study took place, and sophisticatedly breathe life into research participants’ personal histories and commentary in ways that emotionally connect the reader to the research subject at hand.
