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I was honored to give a preconference lecture for the fourth annual Doing Autoethnography conference (2014). At the time, my first book, Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience (Boylorn, 2013a), had recently won some prestigious awards, and I was anxious to talk about the process of doing that “ethnographic autoethnography” (Chris Poulos, personal communication, May 23, 2014).
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Boylorn, R.M. (2017). Bitter Sweet(Water). In: Pensoneau-Conway, S.L., Adams, T.E., Bolen, D.M. (eds) Doing Autoethnography. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-158-2_2
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