Tapestries of Epistemologies: Intersectional and Transnational Feminist Understandings of Caribbean and African Women Faculty’s Influence as Researchers

Abstract

In this article, the authors explore how their intersectional identities as Black immigrant/immigrant descendent women academics inform their research epistemologies in relation to who they are, what they research, and how they perform research. Through the intersections of race, migration, gender, and class they explore four key themes: (1) crossing borders (2) body as text (3) living with and between the contradictions and (4) working in community as researchers.

Keywords:

• intersectionality
• immigration
• transnational feminism
• Black faculty