ABSTRACT
Patrice McClellan and Jennifer Sader’s chapter emulates the book’s opening poem on liberation. McClellan, a Black woman, and Sader, a White woman, have the courage to enter into what they call “sticky and scary” (p. 140) conversations about race relations and how they experienced lessons of difference in their upbringing. Their aim is to learn from each other and, through articulating such learning, liberate themselves from past experiences by dismantling “a wall of resistance to work interracially and a willingness to take a risk in order to honestly discuss race, power, and privilege” (p. 140). They recognize that, although others may identify with particular sections of their duoethnography, the duoethnography is contextual. Their intent is to be open, avoiding prescription. Their desire is not to reify their stories, but, rather, “re”story them through dialogue with the Other.
