This book foregrounds Black narrative traditions and honors alternative methods of data collection, analysis, and representation. Toliver presents a semi-fictionalized narrative in an alternative science fiction setting, refusing white-centric qualitative methods and honoring the ways of the griots who were scholars of their African nations.
S. R. Toliver is Assistant Professor of Literacy and Secondary Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her scholarship centers the freedom dreams of Black youth and honors the historical legacy that Black stories and Black imaginations have had and will have on activism and social change.
Preface
Chapter 1 - Introduction: My Name is Jane and This is My World
Chapter 2 - Exploring Womanism: Finding the Othermothers, Entering the Harbor
Chapter 3 - Expanding the Literature: Speculative Maps, Activating Dreams
Chapter 4 - Introducing the Research Partners: Black Girls and Their World
Chapter 5 - Research Partner Stories: Bailey
Chapter 6 - Research Partner Stories: Victoria
Chapter 7 - Research Partner Stories: Amber
Chapter 8 - Research Partner Stories: Talyn
Chapter 9 - Research Partner Stories: Terrah
Chapter 10 - Research Partner Stories: Avenae'J
Chapter 11 - Conclusion: Going Back, Dreaming Again
Companion 1 - Exploring the Introduction
Companion 2 - Theory in the Word
Companion 3 - Fictionalizing the Research Literature
Companion 4 - The Research Partners
Companion 5 - Concluding the Story
Author's Note