53.081-4 - Positionality on Trial: Examining Global Tensions of Privilege While Performing Humanizing Research With Minoritized Populations

• In Event: 53.081 - Roundtable Session 21

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This session unites five unique qualitative studies that come together to discuss researcher positionality and privileges in performing research with minoritized populations in a global context. Further, the presenters engage in a critical dialogue with one another and with the audience to illuminate tensions they have experienced while attempting to authentically decolonize their research. Participants of the respective studies come from rural, urban and suburban contexts, which have all been labeled in deficit terms through discourses that dehumanize. The process of conducting humanizing research is not linear, yet commitment to it is vital in seeking to move from knowledge to action in hopes of creating disruptive educational outcomes that led to transformative change for the lives of our participants.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• Edelmira Patricia Garcia, NALEO Educational Fund

Papers

• Critical Reflections on Challenging Researcher Privilege in Doing Research on Undocumented Korean American Youth - Ga-Young Chung, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Understanding Latina/o Youth Identity in Suburbia: Negotiating the Tensions Through a Humanizing Approach - Gabriel Rodriguez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Toward Decolonizing the Research Process: Exposing Tensions Through Critical Autoethnography - Kristine Sudbeck, Nebraska Indian Community College

• Youth Agency and Resiliency: A Case Study of "Si Se Puede" Church in Mexican Chicago - Miguel Angel Saucedo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Researcher Identity Negotiations: A Narrative Inquiry of Tensions Within Early Childhood Home Learning Environments - Keisha L Siriboe, The University of Hong Kong