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Two women scholars (Khmer and Black) explore how our subjectivities as researchers influence how we understand, give honor to, and (re)present our participants' experiences in ways that value their humanity. Through phenomenological methods and poetic transcription, we seek more nuanced, creative, and powerful ways of positioning participants' critical agency and highlighting the essence of their racialized experiences. In conceptualizing how qualitative researchers can integrate their positions and subjectivities into the research process as an asset, we identify the significant contributions our perspectives make when more thoughtfully incorporated with the lives and stories of our participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author conducted a self-study of her "American Political Thought" political science course, utilizing anonymous midterm evaluations to unpack the ways students reflect on critical Whiteness and critical race pedagogy. The author utilizes critical Whiteness alongside critical race pedagogy, particularly race metacognition, to suggest political science educators must forsake neutrality in teaching and learning spaces. The author uses critical hermeneutics as a method to reflect the inner-subjectivities of student's understandings and experiences with race centered in political science. It is time for Political Science educators to intellectually assassinate ideas that perpetuate Whiteness rather than forsake Black and Brown bodies. Critical Whiteness is used to demonstration racialized experiences as it relates to political phenomena discussed in the political science course.

The author conducted a self-study of her "American Political Thought" political science course, utilizing anonymous midterm evaluations to unpack the ways students reflect on critical Whiteness and critical race pedagogy. The author utilizes critical Whiteness alongside critical race pedagogy, particularly race metacognition, to suggest political science educators must forsake neutrality in teaching and learning spaces. The author uses critical hermeneutics as a method to reflect the inner-subjectivities of student's understandings and experiences with race centered in political science. It is time for Political Science educators to intellectually assassinate ideas that perpetuate Whiteness rather than forsake Black and Brown bodies. Critical Whiteness is used to demonstration racialized experiences as it relates to political phenomena discussed in the political science course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]