Scholars are increasingly using autoethnography to combine social analysis and researcher implication. Such a combination can be especially useful when the ethnographer is critiquing unjust cultural practices from which he or she benefits. This article is based on a situation that involved racism, and in which the author participated. Following a Saturday night in an apartment during which the author was socializing with four White friends, the author questions the conditions that allowed one person to make a racist comment, and the lack of response. The article continues by addressing the construction and perpetuation of racial stereotypes, the process and act of interrupting such discourse, and the connection of that Saturday night to broader social realities concerning race/ism and White people.
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