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Part One: Welcome to Intersectionality & Activist Research in the M4BL
I. Introducing Ourselves: The 4-Question Interview
Please sit with someone who  you do not know and prepare to ask them these questions.  You will introduce your colleague to the room and be expected to start learning everyone's names ASAP!
  1. What is your name? Pronoun?  Department/program?  College?
  2. What kind(s) of research project(s) are you involved with right now?  [Research does not need to be about formal data collection]
  3. What would you like to learn/ talk/ think about most in this class this semester?
  4. Your Own Question

II. Whole Room Introductions
Part Two: The Syllabus
I. Review w/ Q&A
  1. Take a moment to look at the syllabus for yourself (make note of the website URL www.blackfeministpedagogies.com and the site password)
  2. The first reading will be available under unit one in 24-48 hours
Part Three: "How Private Bodies Become Public Texts"
(start at 5:50 minutes)
(start at 7:00 minutes)
I. Take some notes/get your ideas together
  1. What do you think of Holloway's arguments that the (re)presentation of Black women's bodies as spectacle shapes the research that is done about them?  Why?
  2. Here's a scenario: Undergraduate students, all Brown and Black, are part of a special program where they are "groomed" for Ph.D. programs. In their required methods & research course, they are told that they must learn all of "the rules" of qualitative and quantitative research first before they can be "creative."  One young Black woman is having difficulty with this conversation in class, especially when she is further warned that she cannot use her own "voice" in research.  "Well, what and who is research for" is how she responds.  Imagine yourself as her mentor.  What do you tell her?  What do you think of the position she took, despite the fact that the rest of the group sat silently and/or acquiesced? Write this out as a letter ... or as a dialogue.  (Incorporate some of Holloway's arguments in there if you can.) 

II. Open Discussion