Autoethnography as a Lighthouse: Illuminating Race, Research, and the Politics of Schooling

• In Event: 14.043 - Roundtable Session 1
  In Roundtable Session: 14.043-17 - Equity and Issues of Ethnicity in Schools

Abstract

This work uses autoethnography as an enterprise to break down traditional barriers that support the invisibility of diverse epistemologies (Altheide & Johnson, 2011). The reality of invisibility and silence has plagued scholars of color in their attempt to make known the cultural significance found in the planning and execution of research. As a result, this session purposes to support the visibility and voice of scholars of color who conduct autoethnographic research from a racial, gendered, and critical theoretical framework. This work further supports the research community as it examines and reexamines culturally indigenous epistemologies as a viable vehicle for rigorous and authentic inquiry (Dillard, 2000).

Authors

• Stephen D. Hancock, University of North Carolina - Charlotte

• Andrea L. Tyler, Tennessee State University

• Lameesa Muhammad, University of Cincinnati

• Alfred Anthony Ash, University of North Carolina - Charlotte

• Ayana Allen, Drexel University

• Chance W. Lewis, University of North Carolina - Charlotte