Mobilizing Black Feminist Autoethnography: Teaching for Diversity After the Summer of Racial Reckoning

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Abstract

This paper centers Black feminist autoethnographic methods to examine a series of racialized, gendered, and xenophobic incidents in an undergraduate class focused on equity and diversity. Drawing on journal entries, emails, and other artifacts, this paper examines the layers of discomfort that arose in the class due to the incompatibility of ideologies that emerged from the instructor’s culturally sustaining pedagogical approaches and the politicized rhetoric related to race, (im)migration, and child welfare promoted within particular circles of the QAnon movement. Thus, this paper explores what it means for instructors of color to employ autoethnographic methods to deeply examine layers of violence, fear, and discomfort.

Author

• Tanja Burkhard, Georgia State University
  Presenting Author