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Abstract
As an Asian graduate student and a Native professor at a U.S. Midwestern Predominantly White Institution, we reflected upon Masta’s (2018) article, What the Grandfathers Taught Me: Lessons for an Indian Country Researcher, to examine the decolonizing aspects of autoethnography. Masta’s use of autoethnography to explore her experiences provides a deeply personal view into the phenomenon of living and researching Indigenous in an America that is inherently White in character, tradition, structure, and culture. The use of participatory and constructivist Indigenous autoethnography places the lived experience of an Indigenous woman at the center of the study, using the Indigenous lens to respect the cultural values, beliefs, and teachings of a community that remains largely overlooked in Eurocentric research. Such an appreciation and understanding led us to argue that autoethnography is a promising decolonizing methodology which has the potential to inform decolonization and social justice movements.
Keywords
Autoethnography, Decolonization, Indigenous
Publication Date
11-20-2020
Creative Commons License
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DOI
10.46743/2160-3715/2020.4362
Recommended APA Citation
Pham, D. T., & Gothberg, J. E. (2020). Autoethnography as a Decolonizing Methodology: Reflections on Masta’s What the Grandfathers Taught Me. The Qualitative Report, 25(11), 4094-4103. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2020.4362
ORCID ID
0000-0002-9508-0730
ResearcherID
E-1941-2019
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