%0 Journal Article %T ˇ°Everything Is About Balanceˇ±: Graduate Education Faculty and the Navigation of Difficult Discourses on Race %A Jovita M. Ross-Gordon %A Kayon Murray-Johnson %J Adult Education Quarterly %@ 1552-3047 %D 2018 %R 10.1177/0741713618756188 %X The purpose of this multiple case study was to describe the experiences of graduate education faculty of varying racial/ethnic backgrounds, learning to navigate difficult discourses on race effectively over time. The study employed positionality as a theoretical framework. Findings indicate that faculty balance what we refer to as strategies of self in a bid to work through difficult race talk. In turn, their practice may hold strong potential for influencing a fresh and more holistic approach to engaging in classroom race talk %K race pedagogy %K difficult race talk %K social justice education %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0741713618756188