I'm Brown and I'm Bright: Using Collective Storying to Disrupt the White-Centering of Successful Girlhood

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aut.relation.endpage19
aut.relation.journalGender, Work & Organization
aut.relation.startpage1
dc.contributor.authorCameron, Yael
dc.contributor.authorGaerlan, Eunice
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-15T23:51:21Z
dc.date.available2024-09-15T23:51:21Z
dc.date.issued2024-09-12
dc.description.abstractWhat might it mean to reimagine brown-girl-as-failure to brown-girl-as-success? This article draws on findings from an empirical research study of academically successful teenage girls from Aotearoa New Zealand. In this paper we focus on what it means to be an intelligent and successful young brown woman in the context of the contemporary white-centering of meritocratic success, and the oppressive narrative that brown girls are not bright. Using a creative methodology, Laurel Richardson's collective storying and Patricia Leavy's fiction-based research, the paper engages in forms of creative analytic practice and new knowledge representation, which prioritize authentic voice and understanding of the young women participants' lived experiences. Collective stories were used in the study to challenge existing public discourses of girls and success, including the white-centering of such depictions, and to create narratives that participants could identify with, particularly those that were often unspoken but widely experienced. Using collective stories in the study offered a space of resonance with participants who could engage with the stories during the research process and contribute to their (re)storying. The interplay between the theoretics of methodological creativity and the symbolic violence of a colonial positioning of successful girlhood offers a novel contribution to girlhood studies. Through collective storying and a further interweaving of poetic voice, the disruption of the narrative of deficit offers remembering and revalidation of brown success.
dc.identifier.citationGender, Work & Organization, ISSN: 0968-6673 (Print); 1468-0432 (Online), Wiley, 1-19. doi: 10.1111/gwao.13193
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/gwao.13193
dc.identifier.issn0968-6673
dc.identifier.issn1468-0432
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/18016
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gwao.13193
dc.rights© 2024 The Author(s). Gender, Work & Organization published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject1503 Business and Management
dc.subject1608 Sociology
dc.subject1699 Other Studies in Human Society
dc.subjectGender Studies
dc.subject3505 Human resources and industrial relations
dc.subject4405 Gender studies
dc.subject4410 Sociology
dc.titleI'm Brown and I'm Bright: Using Collective Storying to Disrupt the White-Centering of Successful Girlhood
dc.typeJournal Article
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