ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author provides data across time and space/place as part of a reflexive self-study. She focuses on the idea of a reflexively informed objectivity from P. Bourdieu with which to come to know the ethnographic research process. The author uses narrative as a method of inquiry to interrogate the reflexive practices-in-action, the social contexts and the ways in which the researcher’s identities can position her as a part of and apart from the research. The concept of the “relational” acknowledges the shared experiences, identities and literacy practices between the author participants and her as immigrants to the US; it makes explicit the overt and covert cultural literacy practices that identify the identity group. As an insider to a cultural and racial identity group whose identities, historically, have been silenced and/or operates in the margins, the author understood the power of embodiment of identity through the telling one’s story.
