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Book SynopsisDrawn from a wide range of disciplines, the contributors to this volume explore how ideologies of race and racism intersect with nationality and gender to shape the research experience. They suggest how a critical race perspective might improve research methodologies.
Trade Review"A remarkable collection of essays interrogating the political, methodological and ethical dilemmas of conducting research in racially stratified societies. These theoretically astute and ethnographically rich case studies compellingly demonstrate how the production of knowledge is framed and mediated by the racialized subject positions held by social scientists. Racing Research, Researching Race will no doubt incite a critical and long overdue discussion of the racial politics of ethnographic fieldwork." -- Steven Gregory,author of Black Corona, and Professor of Africana and American Studies at New York University
"Absolutely critical reading. This volume powerfully explores how scholars' own racial background shapes the analytical lens with which they view whiteness, blackness . . . the exoticism and eroticism of racial ‘others' and the domain of white privilege." -- William Darity Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University
"Essential reading for all those whose research explicitly engages racial issues, and for all those who do not realize that their work inevitably engages racial issues." -- Ruth Frankenberg, author of White Women, Race Matters and editor of Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Cultural Criticism
"Points to the ethical dilemmas of researchers researching race among communities that are at once ‘victims' of racism and active in the continued process of racialization." -- Rinaldo Walcott,author of Black Like Who?, and Professor of Humanities, York University (Canada)
"Timely and challenging, this innovative book engages questions and dilemmas that researchers on race and racism rarely talk about in public. Refreshingly clear and comparative in scope, it is a must reading in all courses about race and ethnic relations, calling for a fundamental rethinking of research agendas in this field." -- John Solomos, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick
