Negotiating the insider/outsider continua: A Black female hearing perspective on research with Deaf women and Black women

Qualitative Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 61-78

  Obasi, Chijioke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africanist Sista hood; Black women; Deaf; Deaf women; gender; identity; insider outsider; race and ethnicity; reflexivity; researcher positioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891938300     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794112465632     Document Type: Article

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