Chapter 9: When and Where I Enter: A Reflective Essay on the Photographic History of Three Generations of Black Women Educators

Black women often exist in spaces that require skills only learned from being someone’s daughter. Evans-Winters (2019) described daughtering as “a way of being and navigating the social world” (p. 137). While we learn how to diligently take care of others during this process of understanding the social milieu of dominant settings, our community rarely teaches us how to take care of ourselves. My grandmother, mother, and I have taught in American public k-12 schools collectively, for 60 years. We have used the lessons we learned as daughters of the Jim Crow South, the Civil Rights Movement, and the hip hop generation to reinvent our pedagogy and actively dismantle dominant curricular discourses (Beauboeuf-Lafontant, 2005).