ABSTRACT
In 2021, eight African-American women were invited to tell two stories each about everyday racism: one “focused on a situation in which she felt discriminated against but was able to overcome, and another, focused on a discriminatory situation that she felt she was not able to overcome.” 1 The stories were recorded and uploaded on YouTube. Then, four professors of English, who had been earlier asked to suggest some prompts for the speakers (for instance, “Telling this story now makes me think … ”), were asked to comment on these recordings, using theoretical approaches from their respective fields of research. These approaches included critical race and gender studies, narrative theory, feminist theory, and cognitive-literary studies.
