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Reframing Leadership Narratives through the African American Lens

McGee, Marion Malissa
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2778-6261
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1646838916339573

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2022, Ph.D., Antioch University, Leadership and Change.
Reframing Leadership Narratives Through the African American Lens explores the context-rich experiences of Black Museum executives to challenge dominant cultural perspectives of what constitutes a leader. Using critical narrative discourse analysis, this research foregrounds under-told narratives and reveals the leadership practices used to proliferate Black Museums to contrast the lack of racially diverse perspectives in the pedagogy of leadership studies. This was accomplished by investigating the origin stories of African American executives using organizational leadership and social movement theories as analytical lenses for making sense of leaders’ tactics and strategies. Commentary from Black Museum leaders were interspersed with sentiments of “Sankofa” which signify the importance of preserving the wisdom of the past in an effort to empower current and future generations. This study contributes to closing the gap between race and leadership through a multidimensional lens, while amplifying lesser-known histories, increasing unexplored narrative exemplars, and providing greater empirical evidence from the point of view of African American leaders. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA (https://aura.antioch.edu) and OhioLINK ETD Center (https://etd.ohiolink.edu).
Donna Ladkin, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Lemuel Watson, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Damion L. Thomas, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
219 p.
African American Studies; African Americans; American History; Arts Management; Black History; Black Studies; History; Museum Studies; Museums; Organization Theory; Organizational Behavior
African American; ancestry; art; Black; collective; culture; discourse analysis; history; identity; generational; generativity; leadership; legacy; museum; narrative; oral history; race; racial identity; social movement theory

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  • McGee, M. M. (2022). Reframing Leadership Narratives through the African American Lens [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1646838916339573

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McGee, Marion. Reframing Leadership Narratives through the African American Lens. 2022. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1646838916339573.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McGee, Marion. "Reframing Leadership Narratives through the African American Lens." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1646838916339573

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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