| Abstrakt: |
This manuscript utilizes autoethnography as a critical race methodology. Specifically, the authors use generative autoethnography – a collective spin-story – to illustrate how their past personal experiences are present in their current educational lives. This generative autoethnography fulfills CRT's tenets of: intercentricity of race and racism; challenging dominant Ideology; the commitment to social justice; the centrality of experiential knowledge; and interdisciplinary perspectives. We illustrate the dialectical relationship of our lived experiences in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Oakland, and how these experiences propel the educational work that we do, the voices we choose to lift up, and how we choose to lift them. Shared publicly, these stories further invite readers to critically reflect on their own personal experiences and social realities, continuing the generative praxis of autoethnography. In this way, autoethnography, like critical race method, is an analytic tool that fosters internal reflection, intra/intercultural compassion, and community activism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
