Becoming Critical

Felecia M. Briscoe is Associate Professor of Social Foundations at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the coauthor (with Gilberto Arriaza and Rosemary C. Henze) of The Power of Talk: How Words Change Our Lives. Muhammad A. Khalifa is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Michigan State University.

"...anyone invested in social justice and educational equity will be rewarded by hearing these voices." — Reflective Teaching

• Section I: Introduction and Overview of Book 1. Introduction and Conceptual Framework: Critical Theory, Social Justice, Power, and AutoethnographyFelecia M. Briscoe and Muhammad A. KhalifaSection II: Critical Race Autoethnographic Case Studies Section II Introduction: Authoethnography and Critical Race TheoryMuhammad A. Khalifa2. Auditioning for Whiteness: Autoethnography and Critical Race Theory in the Early Schooling Experiences of an African-American ManMichael E. Jennings 3. To Keep It Real or Not to Keep It Real: The Dialectics of the Chapellian ContradictionNosakhere Griffin-EL4. Blue Collar Scholar: Social Class, Race, and Life as a Black Man in AcademeMark S. Giles 5. Too Black, Yet Not Black Enough: Challenging White Supremacy in U.S. Teacher Education and the Making of Two Radical Social MisfitsBrenda G. Juárez and Cleveland Hayes6. Unbecoming … Responding to Colorblindness: An AutoethnographyJoy HowardSection III: Critical Feminist Autoethnographic Case StudiesSection III Introduction: Critical Feminisms: Gendered Experiences of Oppression and ResistanceFelecia M. Briscoe7. From Fundamentalist Mormon to the Academy: A "Plyg" Girl’s Experiences with the Evolving Sexist Double-BlindFelecia M. Briscoe8. Where Did the Girls Go?: The Role of Socialization and Institutions in Silencing Female VoicesDamaris Moraa Choti Section IV: Critical Intersectional Autoethnographic Case StudiesSection IV Introduction: Intersecting Dimensions of Identity, Oppression, and ResistanceFelecia M. Briscoe9. "You Look Like a Wetback; You Shouldn’t Have Any Trouble": Deals We Make with the Devil on the Road Less TraveledElizabeth de la Portilla10. A Critical Autoethnography of a Black Man from Detroit: Resisting the White Imaginative’s Criminalization of Black MenMuhammad A. Khalifa11. Working the Hyphens: Ethnographic Snapshots in Becoming Critical-Female-Black-ScholarsAisha El-Amin, B. Genise Henry, and Crystal T. Laura12. We’re All Half-Breeds Now … in a Not so Ivory TowerMiguel de OliverSection V: Advances in Rhizomatic Understanding13. Autoethnographic Sensemaking: What Does Our Criticality Mean? Patterns and DivergencesMuhammad A. Khalifa and Felecia M. Briscoe14. Rage, Love, Transcendence in the the Co-Construction of Critical Scholars Identities: Escaping the Iron Cage of Technical-RationalityFelecia M. Briscoe and Muhammad A. KhalifaReferencesContributors’ Professional BiographiesIndex