Abstract

Epistemologically framed by Black Feminism, (auto) ethnography, the heuristic I approach, and racial studies in Colombia, the present work centers the author’s lived experience in the analysis of day-to-day school dynamics and the ways in which they (re)produce gendered racial discourses laying at the very foundation of the Colombian national project. The concurrence of biographic narrative and digital ethnogrpahy, highlights particular intersections of class, race, sexuality, ability, and gender, and ultimately brings forth notions of belonging, national identity, and ideal femininity.

Keywords: Gender, Race, Intersectionality, Catholicism, School, Ethnography, Colombia, Andes, National Project