Lavender Fields

Black Women Experiencing Fear, Agency, and Hope in the Time of COVID-19

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2023
University of Arizona Press (Verlag)
9780816547364 (ISBN)

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Uses autoethnography to explore how Black girls and women are living with and through COVID-19. The book centres their pain, joys, and imaginations for a more just future as we confront all the inequalities that COVID-19 exposes.

Lavender Fields uses autoethnography to explore how Black girls and women are living with and through COVID-19. It centers their pain, joys, and imaginations for a more just future as we confront all the inequalities that COVID-19 exposes.

Black women and girls in the United States are among the hardest hit by the pandemic in terms of illnesses, deaths, evictions, and increasing economic inequality. Riffing off Alice Walker’s telling of her search for Zora Neal Hurston, the authors of these essays and reflections offer raw tellings of Black girls’ and women’s experiences written in real time, as some of the contributors battled COVID-19 themselves.

The essays center Black girls and women and their testimonies in hopes of moving them from the margin to the center. With a diversity of voices and ages, this volume taps into the Black feminine interior, that place where Audre Lorde tells us that feelings lie, to access knowledge—generational, past, and contemporary—to explore how Black women navigate COVID-19. Using womanism and spirituality, among other modalities, the authors explore deep feelings, advancing Black feminist theorizing on Black feminist praxis and methodology.

In centering the stories of Black girls and women’s experiences with COVID-19, this work brings much-needed justice and equity to conversations about the pandemic. Just as Walker worked diligently to find Hurston, Lavender Fields attempts to “find” Black women amid all we are experiencing, ensuring visibility and attention.

Contributors

Tamaya Bailey
Ree Botts
Kyrah K. Brown
Brianna Clark
Kenyatta Dawson
LeContÉ J. Dill
Sara Jean-Francois
Maryam O. Funmilayo
Brandie Green
Courtney Jackson
Angela K. Lewis-Maddox
Annet Matebwe
Mbali Mazibuko
Radscheda R. Nobles
J. Mercy Okaalet
Chizoba Uzoamaka Okoroma
Nimot Ogunfemi
Peace Ossom-Williamson
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Peart

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	The Feminist Wire Books
Zusatzinfo	22 color illustrations
Verlagsort	Tucson
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9780816547364 / 9780816547364
Zustand	Neuware