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Black Researchers Studying Racial Battle Fatigue Among Black Students

Authors :
Stephen John Quaye
Kristen J. Mills
Hunter V. J. Jones
Na’eem Allen-Stills
Neal J. McKinney
Source :
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Vol 23 (2024)
Publication Year :
2024
Publisher :
SAGE Publishing, 2024.

Abstract

In this paper, we explore what it means to be Black researchers exploring racial battle fatigue while simultaneously navigating our own racial battle fatigue. We undertook a photo-elicitation project to investigate racial battle fatigue among Black undergraduate and graduate students. Amid doing this work, we wrestled with how to responsibly complete this research while treating participants with care who had full lives, histories, and stories. Using scholarly personal narrative methodology, we make sense of our research process as a research team of five Black people (two faculty members and three graduate students). We share journal entries to underscore the questions with which we were grappling in the research process, ultimately, to help readers understand our answer to the question: What does it mean to center racial battle fatigue in educational research when Black researchers are navigating their own racial battle fatigue? We close the article with lessons learned from our process to leave readers with ideas to consider as they embark on their own journeys of researching a topic with which they are also experiencing.

Subjects

Subjects :
Social sciences (General)
H1-99

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
16094069
Volume :
23
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.7e49140e509b42a288ace9ddc3091464
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241291776