Fostering Belonging: Autoethnographies and Community Oral Histories

Friday, January 6, 2023: 9:30 AM
Grand Ballroom Salon D (Philadelphia Marriott Downtown)
Samantha Rodriguez, Houston Community College
Academic success is intimately tied to generating a sense of belonging in the classroom. I will discuss how students in my U.S. History from 1877 course have produced auto-ethnographies and oral histories to reflect on how they and their community have experienced social equality and addressed civil rights issues broadly.