Critical Conversations Collective Saved Me: An Autoethnography About a Chicana MotherScholar

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable 7:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Intersectional Feminist Ways of Knowing (Table 37)

Abstract

Students of Color continue to experience racial trauma and stress in higher education. With the lack of racial/ethnic representation in doctoral programs, Students of Color often find themselves isolated and undervalued. Additionally, many programs still maintain colonial and white-centered practices through their teaching, curriculum, mentorship and recruitment and sustainability of Faculty of Color, which discourages doctoral Students of Color from continuing in the academy. This autoethnography details the experiences I, a Chicana MotherScholar, had during my doctoral education. Specifically this autoethnography discusses the tensions and resistance of traditional and dominant research practices and how I leaned on a community of critical doctoral Students of Color to support me in finding research methods and practices that best represented my scholarship.

Author

• Jessica I. Ramirez, Portland State University