Oral Narrative Research with Black Women: Collecting Treasures

280 Pages·1997·171.582 MB·English

by  Kim Marie Vaz

Georgia W, Brown‘- .

Claudia J. Gollop

Martia G r aham Good
* Patricia Green-Powell
Arlene Hambrick
Leslie Ann Kingman
Joycelyn Moody
Christine Obbo
Elizabeth A. Peterson
Diane D. Turner
Kim Marie Vaz
Jacqueline Walcott-McQuigg
Renée T. White
KIM MARIE VAZ
- EDITOR

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ORAL NARRATIVE RESEARCH
WITH BLACK WOMEN

ORAL NARRATIVE RESEARCH
WITH BLACK WOMEN
KIM MARIE VAZ
EDITOR

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Oral narrative research with Black women: collecting treasures /
edited by Kim Marie Vaz.
PGS
Includes bibliographical references (p. ).
ISBN 0-8039-7428-0 (cloth: acid-free paper). — ISBN
0-8039-7429-9 (pbk.: acid-free paper)
1. Women’s studies—Biographical methods. 2. Women, Black—
Research—Methodology. 3. Afro-American women—Research—
Methodology. 4. Oral history—Methodology. 5. Oral tradition—
Methodology. 1. Vaz, Kim Marie.
HQ1185.073 1997
305.48°896°0730072—dc21
97-4842
978898 REO TR0 050 L1072 S O SEIODEOSE S 7 G S 7 S ) S |
Acquiring Editor: Marquita Flemming
Editorial Assistant: Frances Borghi
Production Editor: Diana E. Axelsen
Production Assistant: ~ Karen Wiley
Typesetter/Designer: Janelle LeMaster
Cover Designer: Ravi Balasuriya
Cover Photographer: Deborah Plant
Contents
Preface
Vil
Acknowledgments
1X
1. Introduction: Oral Narrative Research With
Black Women
KIM MARIE VAZ
T Ancestor Mothers
2. Ophelia and Me: Tribute to an Early
Narrative Researcher
MARTIA GRAHAM GOODSON
3. Professions of Faith: A Teacher Reflects on Women,
Race, Church, and Spirit 24
JOYCELYN MOODY

\RT Il Research Processes: Giving Voice
4. What Do Women Know? . .. As I Was Saying! 41
CHRISTINE OBBO
5. You Haven’t Seen Anything Until You Make a
Black Woman Mad 64
ARLENE HAMBRICK
6. Oral History: Louisiana Black Women’s Memoirs 83
GEORGIA W. BROWN
RT Il Research Processes: Health and Well-Being
7. Talking About Sex and HIV: Conceptualizing a
New Sociology of Experience 99
RENEE T. WHITE
8. Methodological Issues in Triangulation: Measuring
Weight Control Behavior of African American Women 119
JACQUELINE A. WALCOTT-McQUIGG
9. Where Have All the Nice Old Ladies Gone? Researching
the Health Information-Seeking Behavior of Older
143
African American Women
CLAUDIA ). GOLLOP
10. African American Women and the Emergence of
Self-Will: The Use of Phenomenological Research 156
ELIZABETH A. PETERSON

T IV Research Processes: Negotiating Institutions
11. Reconstructing the History of Musicians’ Protective
Union Local 274 Through Oral Narrative Method 177
DIANE D. TURNER
12. Methodological Considerations in Field Research: Six
Case Studies
197
PATRICIA GREEN-POWELL
13. Social Conformity and Social Resistance: Women's
Perspectives on “Women’s Place”
223
KIM MARIE VAZ
14. European American and African American Men and
Women’s Valuations of Feminist and Natural Science
Research Methods in Psychology
250
LESLIE ANN KINGMAN
About the Authors 260