The authors used a phenomenological research design and a critical race theory lens to examine interviews with 8 Black male counselor educators and learn what contributed to their earning tenure. Participants described requisite personal dispositions and institutional support as contributing factors. Recommendations include facilitating programmatic sociocultural awareness, assessing faculty experiences, and coordinating mentoring opportunities.
Homeplace (hooks, 1990) is a social construct wherein Black people can aspire to healthy existence and wholeness in an anti‐Black world. Describing experiences of their annual writing retreat, seven Black male counselor educators explored their experience of homeplace through coautoethnography using the six phases of heuristic inquiry (Moustakas, 1990).
Adoption has been viewed as inferior to birthing, carrying social stigma which has resulted in members of the adoption triad, specifically adoptees, experiencing discrimination at all levels of the ecological system (Baden, 2016;Wegar, 2000). Transracial and international adoptees holding marginalized racial or ethnic identities contend with discrimination around their adoption status and their racial designation. Unique to the transracial adoptee experience is belonging to families who do not share their racial and cultural backgrounds. A grounded theory qualitative approach was used to understand the experiences of transracial and international adoptees with racial microaggressions (RMAs) and adoption microaggressions (AMAs). Results from this study reflected interviews from 11 transracial adoptees, with specific attention on AMAs and RMAs. All participants reported experiencing AMAs and RMAs both within and outside of their families. Counselors, counselor educators, and researchers are urged to understand this unique, intersectional experience to develop competency in effectively supporting this population.
In this autoethnographic heuristic inquiry, six ethnically diverse Black counselor educators examined their experiences and identities in historically white spaces, including clinical settings and academia. Findings included three themes: Black community as anchor, navigating the weight of oppression, and Black is not monolithic. Implications for the counseling profession are discussed.
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