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When first-person inquiry is not enough

Challenging whiteness through first and second-person inquiry

We explore the ways second-person inquiry supports, deepens, and enhances first-person inquiry when an emotionally laden identity issue is at stake. The identity issue from which we draw our argument is the impact of one's own white supremacist consciousness on oneself and others. Using detailed accounts of three individual inquirers' experience, we examine how secondperson inquiry provides support for the first-person inquirer's capacity for critical humility as well as the inquirers' abilities to: live in the inquiry, practice new behaviors and unlearn old ones, reflect-in-action, conceptualize new learning and stay open to a range of emotional responses.

Key Words: cooperative inquiry • critical humility • race • transformative learning • white identity • white supremacist consciousness

Action Research, Vol. 3, No. 3, 245-261 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1476750305056000


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