Autoethnography as a tool for transformative learning about white privilege

Journal of Transformative Education

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 212-225

  Boyd, Drick ^a  

^a EASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoethnography; Interracial dialogue; Transformative learning; White privilege

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149203331     PISSN: 15413446     EISSN: 15527840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1541344608326899     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Anderson, L. (2006). Analytic autoethnography. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 35, 373-395.
2. Chang, H. (2007). Autoethnography: Raising cultural consciousness of self and others. In Walford, G. (Ed.), Methodological developments in ethnography (Studies in educational ethnography; pp. 207-212). New York: Elsevier.
3. Chang, H. (2008). Autoethnography as method. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
4. Duncan, M. (2004). Autoethnography: Critical appreciation of an emerging art. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 3 (4), Retrieved June 15, 2007, from http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/backissues/3_4/pdf/duncan.pdf
5. Ellis, C., & Bochner, A. (2000). Autoethnography, personal narrative, reflexivity: Researcher as subject. In N. Denzin & Y. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 733-768). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
6. Glowacki-Dudka, M., Treff, M., & Usman, I. (2005). Research for social change: Using autoethnography to foster transformative learning. Adult Learning, 16 (3-4), 30.
7. Goodall, H. (2000). Writing the new ethnography. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
8. Harding, V. (1993). There is a river: The Black struggle for freedom in America. San Diego, CA: Harvest/HBJ.
9. Heider, K.G. (1975). What do people do? Dani autoethnography. Journal of Anthropological Research, 31, 3-17.
10. Helms, J. (1990). Black and White racial identity: Theory, research and practice. Westport, CT: Praeger.
11. Hitchcock, K. (2002). Lifting the white veil: An exploration of White American culture in a multiracial context. Roselle, NJ: Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books.
12. Hobgood, M.E. (2000). Dismantling privilege: An ethics of accountability. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press.
13. hooks, b. (1995). Killing rage: Ending racism. New York: Henry Holt.
14. Kozol, J. (2006). Shame of the nation: The restoration of apartheid schooling in America. New York: Random House.
15. Langer, E. (1989). Mindfulness. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
16. Langer, E. (1997). The power of mindful learning. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
17. Mahoney, M. (1997). The social construction of whiteness. In R. Delgado & J. Stefancic (Eds.), Critical White studies: Looking beyond the mirror (pp. 330-333). Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
18. McIntosh, P. (1988). White privilege and male privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies. In R. Delgado & J. Stefancic (Eds.), Critical White studies: Looking behind the mirror (pp. 291-299). Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
19. Mezirow, J. (1991). Transformative dimensions of adult learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
20. Mezirow, J. (2000). Learning to think like an adult: Core concepts of transformation theory. In J. Mezirow (Ed.), Learning as transformation: Critical perspectives on a theory in progress (pp. 3- 3). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
21. Mezirow, J. (2005, October 6-9). Transformative learning and adult education. Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Transformative Learning, Michigan State University.
22. Patton, M.Q. (2002). Qualitative research & evaluation methods (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
23. Reed-Danahay, D. (1997). Introduction. In Reed-Danahay, D. (Ed.), Auto/ ethnography: Rewriting the self and the social (pp. 1-20). Oxford, UK: Berg.
24. Stapleford, J. (2008). A torturous journey: The condition of Black America. Christian Scholars Review, 37, 231-251.
25. Vryan, K. (2006). Expanding analytic autoethnography and enhancing its potential. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 35, 405-409.
26. Warren, J. (2001). Absence for whom? An autoethnography of white subjectivity. Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies, 1 (1), 36-49.
27. Warren, J. & Hytten, K. (2004). The faces of whiteness: Pitfalls and the critical democrat. Communication Education, 53 (4), 321-339.
28. Wildman, S., & Davis, A. (2002). Making systems of privilege visible. In P. Rothenberg (Ed.), White privilege: Essential readings on the other side of racism (pp. 89-95). New York: Worth.
29. Wilson, W.J. (2006). There goes the neighborhood: Racial, ethnic and class tensions in four Chicago neighborhoods and their meaning for America. New York: Knopf.