Equity-Minded Analysis of Institutional Quantitative Data Through Intersectionality as Critical Inquiry and Praxis: Race-Gender-Class

• In Event: Who’s Afraid of QuantCrit? The Fetish of Agnosticism and Inverted Epistemologies

Abstract

Inspired by critical race theorist Charles Mills's clarion call on the vagaries of epistemologies of ignorance and inverted epistemologies (Mills 1997:18), as well as intersectional scholar Patricia Hill Collins' (2022) matrix of domination as an analytical tool, López and Diaz-Fuentes employ institutional data (race-gender-class) at Hispanic Serving Institutions to advance QuantCrit and Intersectionality as inquiry and praxis. We depart from the premise that self-implicating critical reflexivity is central to ethical knowledge production that is attentive to power, history, context, relationality and social justice (Collins 2019). We argue that transformative intersectionality as critical inquiry and praxis is key for combatting "statistical gaslighting" (López 2023), the fetish of "good intentions" (Fine 1991) and advancing "liberation ethics" (Cannon cited in Thompson (1978:471) in quantitative research. We end by inviting everyone to consider their spheres of influence to change the conversation and galvanize a community of practice for distribution of resources and impact for student success.  

Authors

• Nancy López, University of New Mexico

• Claudia Diaz Fuentes, University of New Mexico