Dancing in the Shadows of War: Pedagogical Reflections on the Performance of Gender Normativity and Racialized Masculinity.

The article discusses the use of pedagogy to examine popular culture, the body and gender from a personal perspective. It explores the effectiveness of using reflexive auto-ethnography in the classroom by having students explore their conception of gender. The author explores her own raced and engendered position as an educator and researcher, and the challenges and politics of teaching academic inquiry.