Panel 4
In what ways do your own positionalities of privilege and/or oppression inform your research?
In your own work and interpretations, what moves a text/performance/interpretation beyond the “merely cultural” and into the realm of activism and change? In your analysis of the texts you are confronting, can you distill the contingent elements that are most (in)effective in disrupting racial hegemonic processes? As a researcher, how do you determine when racial representations are significant objects of analysis?