Abstract
Scholarship on victim advocacy—working with victims of violence—has received little attention outside issues of burnout and vicarious trauma. Conceptually, few studies examine the complex relationship between social identities of workers and clients even though these identities frame all interactions, both consciously and unconsciously. Methodologically, the majority of studies rely upon quantitative data collection. My research breaks new conceptual and methodological ground by using autoethnography to examine the subtle ways racial privilege and oppression frame the relationships workers and clients hold with one another. This work blends the experiential with the critical through problematizing the author's complicity in replicating structures of racial power while working with a client in crisis. The study concludes by calling for a critical examination of social identities in advocacy work.
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