Racing Research, Researching Race: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies

Racing Research, Researching Race: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies
ISBN-10
0814782418
ISBN-13
9780814782415
Category
Political Science
Pages
281
Language
English
Published
2000-07
Publisher
NYU Press
Authors
Jonathan Warren, France Winddance Twine

Description

A white woman studies upper-class eighth grade girls at her alma mater on Long Island and finds a culture founded on misinformation about its own racial and class identity. A black American researcher is repeatedly assumed by many Brazilian subjects to be a domestic servant or sex worker. Racing Race, Researching Race is the first volume of its kind to explore how ideologies of race and racism intersect with nationality and gender to shape the research experience. Critical work in race studies has not adequately addressed how racial positions in the field--as inflected by nationality, gender, and age--generate numerous methodological dilemmas. Racing Research, Researching Race begins to fill this gap by infusing critical race studies with more empirical work and suggesting how a critical race perspective might improve research methodologies and outcomes. The contributors to the volume encompass a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds including anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, women=s studies, political science, and Asian American studies.

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