Witnessing Social Injustice: A Collaborative Autoethnography

ALEJANDRA MARTÍNEZ; ALDO MERLINO

Urbana, Illinois

Congreso; International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry; 2014

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

In this piece we use collaborative autoethnography to narrate our shared experience during an episode in which issues of race, class, and inequality of opportunities were present, involving our minds, bodies and emotions. We reconstruct and narrate a violent confrontation between black boys and a hotel manager from two different points of view. We reflect on the different perceptions two individuals can have of the same event, stressing the impossibility to remain objective and neutral when observing reality.