Cimarrón Pedagogies. Lidia Marte
to civil rights, respect for differences, and struggles for social justice locally and globally.
Many of the authors discussed in this informal genealogy were considered “minorities” due to their own cultural histories or diasporic origins and, hence, their mere existence influenced how I perceived my own problematic relationship to anthropology, my presence in this discipline and in academia, more broadly, since I was also an outsider, a working-class Dominican immigrant studying, of all places, in Texas. These outsider-within scholars represented for me a sense of hope and relief, a certainty that I was where I should be. The scholars discussed in above, and many more that I had to leave out, inspired a commitment to keep refining my ethnographic approach, to engaged scholarship and ethics, and a desire to produce powerful writings whenever I share my research findings. These authors have been mentors-teachers to me, even if, in the majority of cases, we have never met; in a sense, this is a thank you and homage to them, for what they have done, through their work, for me and for other minority scholars. Although some authors who I have discussed are not ethnographers, and the reader might be asking, what do those works have to do with ethnography? I hope it has become clear, that ethnography is an interdisciplinary praxis, and that, in order to be a good critical ethnographer “in the field,” we need to also become a critical scholar outside of it. In sharpening our understanding of the human condition, we sharpen also our “ethnographic eye.”
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