E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2385066 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin M Boylorn (University of South Florida, Tampa) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 651-680 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800405282798 |
| OpenAlex | W1994918116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 16 |
Written to initiate a dialogue about race in the academy, this narrative focuses on the experience of Black Ph.D. students in predominantly White academic institutions. Experimental in method and representation, this article poses important questions about race in academia. The author utilizes several qualitative opportunities, writing as autoethnography, poetry, and narrative. As a participant and researcher of the experience, the author is given the unique position of telling and listening, observing and explaining, strategizing and editing. The author takes your story (a construction developed to create a bridge between your world and mine) and combines it with her story, (the author's motivations for writing about this experience), and folds it into their story (compiling the findings of the research based on an interview), to create our story (a collective narrative of the Black Ph.D. experience). Hence, the title, "E Pluribus Unum," which translates "out of many, one
Active listening · Art · Autoethnography · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Representation (politics · Sociology · White (mutation · Communication · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Practicing Autoethnography and Living the Autoethnographic Life
Autoethnography in Media Studies
Privilege Through the Looking-Glass
Collaborative autoethnography as a Tool for Research–Practice partnerships
Surviving From the Margins
Digital Television and the Machine That Goes “Ping!”
A Review of Narrative Ethics
An African City
Standing in the kitchen’
Finding Freedom and Connection in Arts-Based Collaborative Autoethnography
Affirmations of Black Being
Black Kids’ (B.K.) Stories
An Education Scholar and a Tightrope Walker
Watching me watching you
The poetic identity work and sisterhood of Black women becoming academics
Understanding Good Urban Governance
Paradoxes of Sexuality, Gay Identity, and the Closet
Gray or For Colored Girls Who Are Tired of Chasing Rainbows
Telling Stories
Mothers, Faggots, and Witnessing (Un)Contestable Experience
Revealing and concealing secrets in research
Between Silence and Speech
Poking Around Poetically
The Wanderer, the Chameleon, and the Warrior
Handbook of qualitative research
Their Story/My Story/Our Story
Constructing Co-Cultural Theory
Playing in the dark
Tales of the Field
Acting Black
Black Feminist Thought
Interracial communication
Sista Docta
The Other Side of the Fence
What's Race Got to Do With It? Critical Race Theory's Conflicts With and Connections to Qualitative Research Methodology and Epistemology
Critical Race Theory and Method
Criteria Against Ourselves
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |