Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience is a
multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the
rural south. At times heartbreaking, at times humorous, Sweetwater
captures the artistry, strength, language and creativity shared by
first-hand accounts of black women in small-town North Carolina
during the twentieth century. The book uncovers the versatility and
universality of black women's experiences and their exceptional
capacity to love in the face of adversity, and hope in the midst of
calamity. Sweetwater is about the black female experience as it
relates to friendship, family, spirituality, poverty, education,
addiction, mental illness, romantic relationships, and everyday
survival. The merging themes show the resilience and resistance
that black women exhibit while negotiating the intersecting
oppressions of racism, classism, and sexism. Written from field
notes and memory, the author reveals the complexities of black
women's lived experiences by exposing the communicative and
interpersonal choices black women make through storytelling.
Narrative inquiry and black feminism are offered as creative
educational tools for discussing how and why black women's singular
and interior lives are culturally and globally significant. This
revised edition preserves the original narratives but features new
content including re-views, re-visions and re-considerations for
re-writing autoethnography.
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