#10097. Finding ourselves as Black women in Eurocentric theory: collaborative biography on learning and reshaping qualitative inquiry

September 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Purpose: Qualitative research consistently centers Eurocentrism through courses integrations of ontological, epistemological and axiological perspectives. This literal whitewashing was a source of great frustration and confusion for the authors, four Black women, who found their identities omitted and disregarded in qualitative inquiry. Using Collins outsider-within concept and collective narratives to center their experiences, the authors seek through their writing to actively repurpose and re-engage with qualitative scholarship that generally seeks to exclude Black women. Design/methodology/approach: Theoretically informed by Collins outsider-within concept, the authors use Deleuze and Parnets collective biography to tell the stories of four Black doctoral students negotiating race, gender, class and intellectual identity, while critiquing Eurocentric theory, through coursework. The collaborative writing process provided shared space for the engagement of individual thoughts and experiences with(in) others narratives.
Keywords:
Black women; Collective biography; Culturally responsive Qualitative inquiry; Eurocentric theory; Outsider-within

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