E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One)

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2385066
AutoresRobin M Boylorn (University of South Florida, Tampa)
Ano2006
Volume12
Fascículo4
Páginas651-680
Data de publicação2006-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800405282798
OpenAlexW1994918116
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas24
Referências citadas16

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