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Caught in Uncertain Futures, Now: A Reflexive Moment
Author(s) -
Reyes III Reynaldo
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12161
Subject(s) - ethnography , reflexivity , futures contract , sociology , vignette , participant observation , gender studies , work (physics) , field (mathematics) , pedagogy , social psychology , anthropology , psychology , mechanical engineering , mathematics , financial economics , pure mathematics , engineering , economics
This reflexive vignette reveals the emotional risks of ethnographic work by a Chicano researcher, educator, and advocate doing work in the Texas‐Mexico Borderlands, caught at the intersection of vulnerable Latina/o youth and their possible futures. Data in this creative piece are derived from field notes of one classroom observation from an ethnographic case study on the communal construction and practice of a college‐going culture experienced by marginalized, middle school, Mexican‐American and Central American emergent bilinguals.