A Mosaic of Researcher “Back-Stories” and Oral History “Front-Stories”: COVID-19 and Metro Detroit BIPOC Entrepreneurs’ Resilience

Rahul Mitra (), Allison Lucas (), Sheryl Johnson-Fambro (), Claire Raaphorst () and Shelby Lasky ()
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Rahul Mitra: Wayne State University
Allison Lucas: Wayne State University
Sheryl Johnson-Fambro: Wayne State University
Claire Raaphorst: Wayne State University
Shelby Lasky: Wayne State University

Chapter Chapter 16 in Organizational Communication and Technology in the Time of Coronavirus, 2022, pp 307-326 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter draws from an ongoing oral history project with Black, Indigenous, and Person of Color (BIPOC) entrepreneurs in Metro Detroit navigating the personal and professional trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our chapter blends narrative strands from these oral histories with our own researcher “back-stories” to demonstrate the intersecting themes of lived experience that connect us. As faculty and students at a Detroit-based urban research university, our lives intersect with these narrators. Some of us are BIPOC entrepreneurs or their long-term customers or are married/related to small business owners; while others have tested positive for the coronavirus, or we know friends/family who have fallen sick or passed away from COVID; while yet others are completely new to the region and thus must traverse a difficult space as “outsiders” peering in, as we engage in this project together. By connecting the “back-stories” of our multiracial research team with the “front-stories” of the entrepreneurs, we co-create a pluri-vocal mosaic of resilience storytelling amid this pandemic.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94814-6_16

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