Gifting Resilience
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Gifting Resilience

A Pandemic Study of Black Female Resistance

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eBook - ePub

Gifting Resilience

A Pandemic Study of Black Female Resistance

About this book

How does fear – deep, ongoing, systemic fear – impact on Black lives?

Through reflections on her own life, anthropologist Dr Linda Jean Hall PhD draws on traditions of African storytelling to explore the question of how systemic fear affects the twentieth- and twenty-first-century Afro American experience. By using the framing of pandemic waves – a concept all too familiar in the wake of COVID-19 – Hall employs a personal lens to parse out the implications of different "waves of fear" through impactful stages of her life, allowing readers to examine the shifting relationships that define Blackness and survival.

Gifting resilience: A pandemic study of Black female resistance is ideal reading for students of Black studies, African American studies, and related courses, as well as for students of feminist and womanist studies, gender studies, cultural studies, history, sociology and anthropology. Unflinchingly honest, this book gives a human face to viewpoints and ideas that originate deep within the complex and diverse African Diasporic lived experience.

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Yes, you can access Gifting Resilience by Dr Linda Jean Hall PhD, Christopher McAuley, Dr Christopher McAuley PhD in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Science Biographies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. v
  6. viPreface
  7. viiA note on language
  8. viiiixContents
  9. xiiIntroduction
  10. xxviLearning objectives
  11. PART I: The germinal moment—​speaking from uncertainty
  12. 1 Writing incentives and logic
  13. 2 A marriage and escape
  14. 3 Walking in the shadows
  15. PART II: Knoxville’s HBCU
  16. 4 An unwelcoming precursor
  17. 5 Afro American?
  18. 6 White supremacy and Black power
  19. 7 American dreams and nightmares
  20. 8 Familial ties and male companions
  21. 9 Social climbing to the bottom
  22. 10 Marginalization in Knoxville
  23. 11 Employment success and love’s reality
  24. 12 The secrets of Vietnam
  25. PART III: Low man on the totem pole
  26. 13 1970s underemployment opportunities
  27. 14 Marijuana and the social welfare system
  28. 15 Speaking truth to power
  29. PART IV: Alone
  30. 16 A hollow marriage
  31. 17 Tennis and the Jehovah’s Witnesses
  32. PART V: The Big Blue nightmare
  33. 18 Precariousness and professional dreams
  34. PART VI: Failure and being “the best”
  35. 19 Gender, race, and bullying
  36. 20 Dismissal and retribution
  37. 21 Parental demands and divorced Black womanhood
  38. 22 Guilt, marriage, and success
  39. 23 Avoiding hate while failing miserably
  40. 24 Golden State ambitions and insecurities
  41. PART VII: California here I come
  42. 25 Compassion and friendship networks
  43. 26 Opportunities requiring closure
  44. 27 Inevitable mortality and project completion
  45. PART VIII: Death and degrees
  46. 28 Academic achievement from a historically marginalized perspective
  47. PART IX: Master’s nightmares and doctoral dreams
  48. 29 Parental heartache overshadows success
  49. 30 Conclusion
  50. 254Suggested discussion topics
  51. 255References
  52. 256257Further reading
  53. Index