With direct and unapologetic language, Dr. Obaizamomwan-Hamilton offers a necessary set of instructions. If we are to do right by Black women educators, we must move with honesty, responsibility, commitment, and love. By honouring their processes of healing, she calls us to take their stories and imperatives seriously as world-building work. Anything less is unacceptable. David Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Dr. Obaizamomwan-Hamilton's radical methodology for Black pedagogy positions research as a site of personal and collective racial healing. Centering the (her)stories of Black women through their hairstories, she illuminates what is required to recruit, prepare, retain, and truly nurture Black women educators within institutions shaped by anti-Blackness and misogynoir. This book demands a rethinking of education as reparation. Farima Pour-Khorshid, University of San Francisco

 

Rooted in Black hair as memory, method, and archive, Articulations is part biography, part manifesto, and part blueprint. Dr. Obaizamomwan-Hamilton weaves together the lived experiences of Black women educators into a text that speaks across generations. It is impossible to read this work without imagining futures in which Black women are recognised as cultural, structural, and spiritual cornerstones. Andre Carter, Editor, Black Educology Mixtape

 

To be seen, to be loved, felt—is a sacred act of regard. Articulations: A Radical Methodology for Black Pedagogy—Redefining Education through Black Women’s Hair Experiences offers an invitation, a mirror, into the plight, fight, beauty, healing, and em(body)ed experiences of Black women. Dr. Obaizamomwan-Hamilton’s 4C methodology offers Black women communion and a pathway toward what bell hooks defines as a radical state of being,  rooted in love and liberation, moving beyond systems of domination and toward authorship. Yaribel Mercedes, Hunter College 

 

Articulations, A Radical Methodology for Black Pedagogy: Redefining Education through Black Women’s Hair Experiences offers a novel, yet relatable way of providing context for understanding the uniqueness that is the professional life of the Black woman educator. Dr. Obaizamomwan-Hamilton deftly connects what seem to be two disparate topics, those being Black women’s hair and education, and thoroughly weaves them together (pun intended) in a way that intricately describes the ways in which we love, nurture, and protect our crowns and our whole selves in spite of it all, despite every damn thang. Dr. Heather M. Streets, University of San Francisco

 

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