With Head and Heart: Exploring Autoethnographic Antiracist Research in Pediatric Cancer Communities

Abstract

The chapter presents womanist musings about the author’s journey and growth as a Black woman scholar-advocate committed to socially just and antiracist scholarship. Using autoethnography, the author has synthesized her personal experience as a mother of a child diagnosed with cancer, with her professional endeavors as the founder Golden Moms (a peer support organization where majority of the mothers and their children are White) and with my work as doctoral student, to challenge White privilege in the academy.

Citation

Capers, S. (2023), "With Head and Heart: Exploring Autoethnographic Antiracist Research in Pediatric Cancer Communities", Black, K. and Mehra, B. (Ed.) Antiracist Library and Information Science: Racial Justice and Community (Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 52), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 157-165. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-283020230000052016