Résumés
Résumé
Reconnaissant la longue histoire des revendications de plusieurs générations d’Afro-Canadiens et Afro-Canadiennes et l’urgence d’aborder le racisme anti-Noir, nous proposons trois axes d’actions d’une démarche épistémologique émancipatrice pour informer la conception et la réalisation d’études qualitatives. Nous nous appuyons sur le corpus de chercheurs et chercheuses critiques pour suggérer qu’il est important : 1) de mobiliser le corpus d’intellectuelles et intellectuels noirs et des théories sociocritiques lors de la conception d’un projet de recherche; 2) de pratiquer la réflexivité de la conception d’un projet de recherche jusqu’à la dissémination des résultats; 3) de reconnaître la pertinence d’intégrer la pluralité des savoirs des communautés noires. Nous présentons ces trois axes d’actions tout en sachant que cette liste n’est pas exhaustive. Plutôt, en s’ancrant dans les principes décoloniaux, afrocentriques, antiracistes, féministes et intersectionnels, cette démarche épistémologique consolide la recherche à visées émancipatrices et transformatrices par, pour et avec les populations afrodescendantes.
Mots-clés :
- Afro-Canadiens,
- épistémologie,
- féminisme noir,
- méthodes qualitatives,
- racisme anti-noir
Abstract
Recognizing the long history of claims by several generations of African-Canadians and the urgency of dealing with anti-Black racism, we are proposing three focuses of action for an emancipating epistemological process that will inform the design and execution of qualitative studies. We based ourselves on the corpus of critical researchers to suggest the importance of: 1) mobilizing the corpus of Black intellectuals and socio-critical theories when designing a research project; 2) practicing reflexivity in the design of a research project right up to distribution of the results; 3) recognizing that it is appropriate to integrate the plurality of project knowledges belonging to Black communities. We present these three focuses of action in full awareness that they do not constitute an exhaustive list. Rather, by anchoring this epistemological process in principles of decolonization, Afro-centricity, antiracism, feminism and intersectionality, we will consolidate the research and its emancipatory and transformative goals by, for and with Afrodescendant populations.
Keywords:
- African-Canadians,
- epistemology,
- Black feminism,
- qualitative methods,
- anti-Black racism
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