“Playing with” and “Letting go”: Employing theoretical frameworks and methodologies to examine Black women's experiences in higher education

Abstract

Author overviews interdisciplinary and culturally relevant theoretical/conceptual frameworks and methodologies researchers and theorists have employed to examine Black women's experiences in higher education as students, administrators, and faculty. In conversation with literature and her lived experiences, the author offers three lessons for Black women and those seeking to employ critical frameworks and methodologies: (1) do your research; (2) play with theory and let go; and (3) align positionality, epistemology, and praxis.