%0 Journal Article
%T Researcher-Researched Difference: Adapting an Autoethnographic Approach for Addressing the Racial Matching Issue
%A Donnalyn Pompper
%J Journal of Research Practice
%D 2010
%I Athabasca University Press
%X This introspective essay was inspired by a desire to reflect on the use of qualitative research methods--where I am a Caucasian woman examining work experiences of women of color. I launched a journey backward to discover respondents' motivation for participating in my focus groups over the years, to closely examine their comfort level with a cross-ethnic dyad. The exercise enabled me to reflect on how I had negotiated power issues inherent in the research process. It contributes to the ongoing dialogue about autoethnography--where understanding of self in socio-cultural context is both the subject and object of the research enterprise. Overall, I interrogate epistemological and methodological practicalities of researching difference.
%K researcher-researched relationship
%K difference
%K race
%K ethnicity
%K autoethnography
%K power
%U http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/187/181