Who Look at Me?!

Durell M. Callier, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of cultural and critical youth studies in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University.Dominique C. Hill, Ph.D., is the 2017 recipient of the Illinois Distinguished Qualitative Dissertation Award in experimental design and a visiting assistant professor of Black Studies at Amherst College.

• AcknowledgementsPrologueWhy Auto/Ethnography Education and Performance Now: Who Look at me, Now: Reflections on Being SeenFraming Shifting the GazeThe Origins of Shifting the Gaze in Our WorkShifting the Educational Gaze Now: Insisting on Pedagogies of Freedom, Creativity, and PraxisTools to Engender Gaze ShiftingAutoethnography and EducationA Note to Our Read(er)sOrganization of the BookReflection Questions & Interactive ExerciseChapter 1: When You See Me: Notes on Terrible EducationsReflectionsNaming & Unlearning: Pedagogies of ResistanceI Am, We Are, Before That: Letters to the FutureReflection QuestionsChapter 2: Reflections on Bodies on Display: Exploring the Radical Potential of the Black, Queer BodyDimensions of BodyBodies on Display: PleasureLearning through the Body: What Being on Display Taught UsDeep Creation Happens with/in the Feminine: A LessonReorienting the Gaze: Notes on Pleasure and Blended ScriptingConclusionReflection Questions & Interactive ExerciseChapter 3: Looking Again: Collective Visions, Collective Sight/SeeingSOLHOT Lesson I: “Just because…Don’t Mean…”SOLHOT Lesson II: Save Yourself First: Recollecting Dirty Work and Wreckless TheatricsConclusionReflection QuestionsChapter 4: Answering the Call: Manifesting the Spirit of Auto/EthnographyThe Contribution of Auto/Ethnography to Qualitative ResearchManifesting & Autoethnography: Charting New Directions in the FieldReflection Questions & Interactive ExerciseChapter 5: When We Look at Each Other: An Auto/Ethnography of TogethernessSearching for Collectivity in Auto/EthnographyMore than Collaboration, We Love Each Other: Coming to Collective Auto/EthnographyReflection QuestionsConclusion Shifting Sociocultural Gazes: Toward Seeing Blackness AnewBlack Scenes/Seen BlackReflection Questions & Interactive ExerciseEpilogueDear Uncle JimmyReferencesAbout the AuthorsIndex

"Who Look at Me?! is a book not only to shift the field, but our humanity. To see Black queer bodies wholeness and complexities at the same time. This book is a love poem of research addressed to the most vulnerable." – Bettina L. Love, Associate Professor, University of Georgia, Department of Educational Theory & Practice"This text shudders with not only the brilliance of these young authors, but also the seismic times in which it has been forged. Do yourself a favor and go buy this book now. Better yet, buy two and give one to a colleague or friend who needs it." – Anne M. Harris, Associate Professor, Australian Research Council Future Fellow and RMIT University, Principal Research Fellow, School of Education and Digital Ethnography Research Centre