Autoethnography as a lighthouse : illuminating race, research, and the politics of schooling

• Other Authors: Hancock, Stephen D. (Editor), Allen, Ayana (Editor), Lewis, Chance W. 1972- (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2015]
• Series: Contemporary perspectives on access, equity, and achievement.
• Subjects: Ethnology > Biographical methods.; Ethnology > Authorship.; Minorities in higher education > United States.; African American scholars.; Hispanic American scholars.; Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.; Social and cultural anthropology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806611560
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-62396-824-3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (194 pages) : illustrations

This work uses autoethnography as an enterprise to deconstruct barriers that support the invisibility of diverse epistemologies. The reality of invisibility and silence has plagued "unvalued others" in their attempt to make known the cultural significance found in the planning and executio...

Table of Contents:

• Common threads : Culturalized patterns and conceptual understandings of race, research, and the politics of schooling / Stephen D. Hancock and Ayana Allen
• Your inquiry is not like mine : Structuring a critical constructivist approach to autoethnographic inquiry / Stephen D. Hancock
• Going native/being native : The promise of critical co-constructed autoethnography for checking race, class, and gender in/out of the field / Sherick Hughes and Kate Willink
• Autoethnography as counternarrative : Confronting myths in the academy : An African American female perspective / Lisa R. Merriweather
• From being considered at-risk to becoming resilient : An autoethnography of an immigrant child finding her voice in becoming a U.S. Citizen / Rosalinda Mercado-Garza
• Race, gender, and single parenting : Dismantling the "invisible" myth around intellectual black female scholars / Andrea L. Tyler and Lameesa Muhammad
• Fragmented but unbroken : Forming a black white biracial identity in the south / Anthony Ash
• Black-self/white-context : An autoethnography of hurt, hope, and heroism in predominantly white schools / Ayana Allen
• Black women professors' evolving teacher identities : Reconciling past, present, and future / Tambra O. Jackson and Michelle L. Bryan
• Stimulating conversions : Critical teaching, changing paradigms, and the politics of schooling in an urban elementary context / Stephen D. Hancock
• The implications of autoethnographic research for access to equity and achievement / Ayana Allen, Stephen D. Hancock, and Chance W. Lewis.