Youth Debriefing Diversity Workshops: Conversational Contexts that Forge Intercultural Alliances across Differences

This article examines how an ethnically diverse group of youth critically debriefs their facilitation of diversity workshops for other youth. Using naturally occurring tape-recorded conversations and a critical ethnographic and discourse analysis perspective, the article examines youth's contributions towards a participatory process of learning, constituted in dialogical relations of conflict and coalition. Revealed is how participants engage diverse subjectivities, agency and concern for others by co-creating conversations that go beyond their paid intern responsibilities as diversity trainers. In conversation they co-create opportunities, "conversational contexts", that promote intercultural alliances and (in)form education and learning. (Contains 3 notes.)