“…(MILNER & HOWARD, 2013, p. 542) Since the introduction of the CRT approach to education by LadsonBillings and Tate almost twenty years ago (1995, see also Ladson-Billings, 1998), many researchers have been using this approach within educational research as a theoretical and analytical framework (BELL, 2003;PARKER & STOVALL, 2004;GILLBORN, 2009;MARX AND PENNINGTON, 2003;MILNER, 2010;MILNER & HOWARD, 2013; and many others). The theoretical framework of CRT has also been used in the fields of TESOL and language education (FERREIRA, 2004(FERREIRA, , 2007(FERREIRA, , 2009(FERREIRA, , 2011MICHAEL-LUNA, 2009;KUBOTA & LIN, 2009;SANTOS, 2011;DIAS, 2013;LIGGETT, 2014;KUBOTA, 2015) After finishing my PhD in 2004(FERREIRA, 2004, in which I used the tenets of CRT to analyse my research data, I went back to teaching and I gradually introduced autobiographical narratives as part of the themes to be discussed in the MA course that I teach at UEPG.…”