Illuminating Truth From the Margins: Using Critical Race Methodologies to Conduct Humanizing Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Conducting humanizing research during an era of racial reckoning has become increasingly integral for scholars committed to pushing forth a praxis that enacts a “real bearing on disrupting ableism, racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and other forms of discrimination” within education. In the spirit of collaboration and thought sharing, this panel highlights four distinct projects which employ transformative qualitative methodologies rooted in Critical Race traditions. Specifically, papers leverage methodologies such as platicas, oral histories, epistolary and creative writing methodologies. These innovative methodologies lead us to engage a research praxis that (1) intentionally centers Community of Color experiences of educational exclusion and resistance, (2) challenges deficit narratives that uphold majoritarian perspectives, and (3) honors the pursuit of truth telling.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Michael W. Moses, University of California - Riverside

Papers

• Conviviencia Praxis Within Critical Race History Educational Research - Lorena Camargo Gonzalez, California State University - Sacramento

• Life History as a Critical Race Theory Method for Counterstorytelling in the Study of Higher Education - Cynthia Estrada, California State University - Channel Islands; Fernando Garcia, University of California - Los Angeles

• Papelitos Guardados Journaling: A Critical Race Tool for Uncovering Racism and Desahogando in Higher Education - Brianna R. Ramirez, University of California - San Diego

• Letter-Writing as a Chicana/Latina Resistance Tool: Employing a Critical Race Feminista Epistolary Methodology - Cindy R. Escobedo, University of California - Los Angeles