Collaboration across difference: a joint autoethnographic examination of power and whiteness in the higher education anti-cuts movementFootnote

Parts of this paper were presented at the 8th biennial conference for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues in New Orleans, LA, and at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis conference entitled ‘Beneath the University, the Commons.’ The primary author was supported by the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship. The authors thank the CPRAT Lab at UCSC, Wanda Alarcon, Bettina Aptheker, Sara R. Smith, Amrit Kaur Sidhu, Christine Sleeter, Megan Thomas, Gina Ulysse, and comrades in the anti-cuts movement.

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