Disrupting Dominant Narratives and Privilege: Teaching Black Women’s Enterprise and Activism

Abstract

This article deals with my experience of teaching a course on Black women’s enterprise and activism as a means of disrupting the dominant narratives that privilege accounts of Whites and men in the management canon. I explore counterstorytelling as a pedagogical tool to bear witness to the struggles of people from marginalized communities and amplify their experience to critique systems of economic power based on race, class, and gender. Finally, I share a call for epistemologies of racialized people to combat privilege in business school classrooms.