African American Alphabet. (December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bowden, Tiffany
• Other Names: Carlson David Lee guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 26:Number 10(2020)
• Page Start: 1248
• Page End: 1249
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Subjects: investigative poetry -- methods of inquiry -- performance ethnography -- ethnographies -- methodologies -- African American studies -- ethnicity and race -- politics and culture -- autoethnography; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800419866481
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

This article is a performance piece meant to explore the stressors upon the African American community. In the face of oppression and overwhelm, poetry provides an empathetic insight to overwhelm. This poem is meant to be read aloud. Its rhythmic onslaught of information is metaphoric.