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Research Article

Antiracist storytelling: latinx graduate students and faculty experiences in academia

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Pages 85-100 | Received 01 Feb 2022, Accepted 14 Oct 2022, Published online: 28 Nov 2022
 

ABSTRACT

Anti-racist storytelling serves as a mechanism to expose the power dynamics and structural racism embedded in U.S. society. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate how anti-racist storytelling can be germane to challenging the status quo in academia that allows inequities to exist. First, we begin by sharing and debriefing stories that illustrate the difficulties that Latinxs face within academic spaces. Second, we discuss the role of allies. Finally, we present a story of faculty engaging in a dinner discussion, which highlights the issues of power, representation, and voice in who gets to share the stories of people of colour. Critical race theory (CRT) guided the development of these stories, and a short discussion on the framework is included.

Résumé

Les récits antiracistes constituent un mécanisme permettant d’exposer les rapports de force et le racisme structurel dans la société américaine. Cet article vise à démontrer que les récits antiracistes peuvent jouer un rôle central dans le refus du statu quo dans les universités qui tolèrent l’injustice. Nous avons d’abord partagé et analysé des récits qui illustrent les difficultés vécues par les Latino-Américains à l’université. Ensuite, nous discutons du rôle des alliés. Enfin, nous présentons le récit d’un professeur qui, à l’occasion d’une discussion autour d’un bon repas, a fait ressortir les rapports de force, ainsi que les problèmes de représentativité et d’expression quand il s’agit de partager le récit d’une personne de couleur. Nous nous sommes basés sur la théorie critique de la race (CRT) pour élaborer ces récits et avons inclus une brève discussion sur notre cadre de travail.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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