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Where am I? Locating Myself and its Implications for Collaborative Research.
- Source :
- American Journal of Community Psychology; Jun2006, Vol. 37 Issue 3/4, p267-291, 8p
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- This paper examines how a younger white female graduate student and an African American female undergraduate viewed the relationship between the graduate student and older African American working class women. This relationship was formed around a community garden project. The graduate student understood the relationship to be based on gender and class background similarities; the undergraduate viewed it based on race differences and unexamined white privilege. Both interpretations are challenged as unidimensional. Through this re-telling, questions are raised about why situating ourselves via our identities is not practiced more frequently. Possible explanations of this lack of attention to situativity include a Cartesian philosophy of science that separates objectivity and subjectivity, a general unawareness of privilege by those who have it, and a dominant scientific discourse that neglects the role of the researcher. This paper illustrates why reflexivity is crucial for the work of community psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- AFRICAN Americans
COLLEGE graduates
AMERICANS
GENDER studies
RACIAL differences
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00910562
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 3/4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- American Journal of Community Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 21638850
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-006-9052-5