TY - JOUR
T1 - Missing black undergraduate women and the politics of disposability
T2 - A critical race feminist perspective
AU - Patton, Lori D.
AU - Ward, Lawanda W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Journal of Negro Education.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - According to the Black and Missing Foundation roughly 64,000 Black women are missing. However, little is known about these women due to the racialized and gendered narratives that collectively shroud their lives of and contribute to their disposability. Black women who go missing receive limited, negative, or no attention at all. Capturing attention requires their lives to be proven worthy, which is difficult when Black women narratives are linked to crime, mental illness and other issues to suggest they were some how responsible or deserving of their predicament. In this article we use a critical race feminist (CRF) framework and introduce a CRF methodology to center the stories of missing Black undergraduate women, disrupt the invisibility and disposability that ensures silence around their lives and highlight the need for more scholarly efforts that focus on Black women.
AB - According to the Black and Missing Foundation roughly 64,000 Black women are missing. However, little is known about these women due to the racialized and gendered narratives that collectively shroud their lives of and contribute to their disposability. Black women who go missing receive limited, negative, or no attention at all. Capturing attention requires their lives to be proven worthy, which is difficult when Black women narratives are linked to crime, mental illness and other issues to suggest they were some how responsible or deserving of their predicament. In this article we use a critical race feminist (CRF) framework and introduce a CRF methodology to center the stories of missing Black undergraduate women, disrupt the invisibility and disposability that ensures silence around their lives and highlight the need for more scholarly efforts that focus on Black women.
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U2 - 10.7709/jnegroeducation.85.3.0330
DO - 10.7709/jnegroeducation.85.3.0330
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85019106164
SN - 0022-2984
VL - 85
SP - 330
EP - 349
JO - Journal of Negro Education
JF - Journal of Negro Education
IS - 3
ER -