Abstract
America has the look of a broken thing. In an era of systemic racism, domestic terrorism, police brutality, gender bias and misogyny, many Americans would like strategies that enable personal and collective healing accompanied by an enabling morality. One approach to accomplishing these things is to engage in the stories that confront the myth of Americanness as inclusive and safe. Focusing on the benefits of telling stories of Black women in America, the disruptive and constructive capacity of counter narratives help to illustrate how we can eschew culturally destructive behavior and replace it with conscious and ethical evolution.
Highlights
What is the story that we tell ourselves about the identities and realities of Black women in America? Who is empowered to tell that diversi ed explanatory story (Hammond, 2014) and to testify about the importance of our own truths and those of our mothers without negative consequences? Our premise is that in order to engage insightfully in the American drama, the counter narrative of Black women can be explored through a womanist lens that helps to point out the need for tactics that will allow us to care for ourselves and to thrive as creative agitators who improve society in a time of unparalleled distress
E Black Aesthetic an Empirical Feeling, identi es the phenomena of African American adult subjects being able to select with signi cant statistical accuracy, non-objective painting images, which they considered to be attributed to African American artists
Because there is more to know, we recommend that those interested in antiracist and anti-sexist involvement seek out political-cultural-philosophical literature that provides other counter narrative insights into the lives of Black women
Summary
What is the story that we tell ourselves about the identities and realities of Black women in America? Who is empowered to tell that diversi ed explanatory story (Hammond, 2014) and to testify about the importance of our own truths and those of our mothers without negative consequences? Our premise is that in order to engage insightfully in the American drama, the counter narrative of Black women can be explored through a womanist lens that helps to point out the need for tactics that will allow us to care for ourselves and to thrive as creative agitators who improve society in a time of unparalleled distress. It’s the national myths like “America is the land of opportunity” that we all grow up hearing and believe even when we know it’s not true in reality It spins a story about why some people experience social and economic advantages and why others are disadvantaged. In order to tell our stories and how Black women make meaning within the American story, it is important to consider the current variables in uencing our existence At this moment the United States is getting an intimate view of the disappearance of its democracy. Is is at least one Black man or woman every week of 2020 according to CBS News (https://www.cbsnews.com/ pictures/black-people-killed-by-police-in-the-u-s-in-2020/) Within this context, “[b]lack women have the highest rates of homicide in the country”, says Kimberle’ Crenshaw, a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School and the executive director of the African American Policy Forum. She says she has “repeatedly seen the killings of Black women go unnoticed” (Young and McMahon, 6/16/20). is observation brings us to the case of Breonna Taylor
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