Brown Boxes

An Autoethnographic Exploration of Cultural Identity and Fluid Positionality

Bibliographic Data

ID18966172
AuthorsMohammed (0000-0001-8930-1413, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume29
Issue5
Pages589-597
Publication date2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10778004221118688
OpenAlexW4294031107
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

Through personal vignettes, the author explores how racial, religious, and citizenship aspects of cultural identity shift in meaning both across the lifespan and across borders. The author evokes tension and growth in the vignettes to communicate a felt understanding of the emotional implications of colonial displacement, offering an opportunity for readers to resonate with the diasporic experience. The author further calls for social scientists to reframe positionality as a persistent reflexive process that is as fluid and dynamic as we are (rather than a methods section feature) and similarly reframe diversity to find new ways to relate to one another

Aesthetics · Autoethnography · Cognitive reframing · Epistemology · Reflexivity · Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology

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