Bitter Sweet(Water)

Abstract

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).