Stepping into the Tension: A Cross-Race Duoethnography of Life in the Academy

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Abstract

Exploring the possibility of critical duoethnography for building equitable research collaborations in higher education this work embraces difference and dynamics of power without demanding a resolution of tension or assimilation by weaving together ethnographies from a Black woman and a White woman who grapple with finding space in the academy.

Authors

• Moira L. Ozias, University of Oklahoma

• Elizabeth Cook, University of Texas San Antonio