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Me-Search: Pursuing Race, Culture, and Gender in the Heart and Healing Work of Qualitative Inquiry

Sat, April 13, 11:25am to 12:55pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 5, Salon L

Session Type: Symposium

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Me-search is defined “as research with, about or connected to one’s identity or positionality” or setting (Gardner et al., 2017, p. 90). When examining me-search in the literature, the experiences of scholars of color are often not highlighted due to the overwhelming presence of whiteness in academic spaces. Hence for the purposes of this investigation, we frame qualitative me-search, from the standpoint of scholars of color, as identity work—more specifically the pursuit of race, culture, and gender in the heart and healing work of qualitative inquiry. While we acknowledge that me-search is not confined solely to qualitative inquiry, we argue that qualitative research requires researchers, more so than other modes of inquiry, to tap into their identity and emotionality.

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