Where am I? Locating Myself and its Implications for Collaborative Research

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A paper examining how a younger white female graduate student and an African American female undergraduate student differently understood the relationship between the graduate student and older, working-class African American women, formed around a community garden project. The graduate student framed the relationship around shared gender and class background, while the undergraduate framed it around racial difference and unexamined white privilege. The paper challenges both interpretations as unidimensional, raises questions about why researchers rarely situate themselves through their identities, and argues that reflexivity is essential to community psychology research.