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

In: Organizational Communication and Technology in the Time of Coronavirus

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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)

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.

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  • Rahul Mitra & Allison Lucas & Sheryl Johnson-Fambro & Claire Raaphorst & Shelby Lasky, 2022. "A Mosaic of Researcher “Back-Stories” and Oral History “Front-Stories”: COVID-19 and Metro Detroit BIPOC Entrepreneurs’ Resilience," Springer Books, in: Larry D. Browning & Jan-Oddvar Sørnes & Peer Jacob Svenkerud (ed.), Organizational Communication and Technology in the Time of Coronavirus, chapter 0, pages 307-326, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-94814-6_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94814-6_16
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