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

296 Pages·2000·0.996 MB·English

by  France Winddance Twine, Jonathan Warren

Racing Research, Researching Race

Racing Research,
Researching Race
Methodological Dilemmas
in Critical Race Studies
edited by
France Winddance Twine
and
Jonathan W. Warren
a
New York University Press
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new york university press
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© 2000 by France Winddance Twine and Jonathan W. Warren
Chapter 8 © Cambridge University Press. Reprinted by permission
fromIn Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995).
© Chapter 9 Mitchell Duneier
© Afterword by Howard S. Becker
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Racing research, researching race : methodological dilemmas in
critical race studies / edited by France Winddance Twine and
Jonathan W. Warren.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8147-8242-6 (pbk. : acid-free paper) —
ISBN 0-8147-8241-8 (cloth : acid-free paper)
1. Race—Research—Methodology. 2. Sociology—Research—
Methodology. 3. Race awareness. 4. Racism. 5. United States—
Race relations. I. Twine, France Winddance, 1960–
II. Warren, Jonathan W.
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For Kristin Luker
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In Memory of Joe Wood, Jr., who
disappeared on Mount Rainier on July 8, 1999

Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword xi
Troy Duster
1 Racial Ideologies and Racial Methodologies 1
France Winddance Twine
2 Research as an Act of Betrayal: Researching Race in
an Asian Community in Los Angeles 35
Naheed Islam
3 White Like Me? Methods, Meaning, and Manipulation
in the Field of White Studies 67
Charles A. Gallagher
4 White on White: Interviewing Women in U.S. White
Supremacist Groups 93
Kathleen M. Blee
5 Doing My Homework: The Autoethnography of a
White Teenage Girl 111
Lorraine Delia Kenny
6 Masters in the Field: White Talk, White Privilege,
White Biases 135
Jonathan W. Warren
7 Racism, Eroticism, and the Paradoxes of a U.S. Black
Researcher in Brazil 165
Michael G. Hanchard
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8 Violating Apartheid in the United States: On the
Streets and in Academia 187
Philippe Bourgois
9 Race and Peeing on Sixth Avenue 215
Mitchell Duneier
10 Women in Prison: Researching Race in Three
National Contexts 227
Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Angela Y. Davis
Afterword: Racism and the Research Process 247
Howard S. Becker
Bibliography 255
Contributors 273
Index 277
Acknowledgments
Wethank the contributors to this volume for patiently working with us
during the past years. We are very grateful to our editor, Niko Pfund,
whose enthusiasm, encouragement, and belief in this project brought it
to completion. During the editorial process, Despina Papazoglou Gim-
bel handled this manuscript with skill and grace. We have been sus-
tained intellectually, politically, and emotionally by friends and col-
leagues, old and new: Richard Appelbaum, Ingrid Banks, Tani Barlow,
Vilna Bashi, Howard S. Becker, Carla Simone Barbosa de Brito, Kum-
Kum Bhavnani, William T. Bielby, Denise Bielby, Kathleen Blee,
Philippe Bourgois, Karen Brodkin, Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Dave
Carlson, Héctor Carrilla, Donald Martin Carter, Nelista Cuffy, Wil-
liam Darity, Jr., Angela Y. Davis, Mitchell Duneier, Troy Duster, Steve
Epstein, Richard Flacks, John Foran, Ruth Frankenberg, Maria Frank-
lin, Charles Gallagher, Pam Goldman, Lauren E. Goodlad, Avery Gor-
don, Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães, Phil Gorsky, Gail Hanlon,
Michael Hanchard, Hella Heydorn, Arnell Hinkle, Judith Howard,
Naheed Islam, Lucy Jarosz, Alan Jenkins, Lorraine Delia Kenny, Ellen
Lewin, Donald Lowe, Kristin Luker, Jelani Mahiri, Irma McClaurin,
Deirdre McDonald, Heather Merrill-Carter, Kenneth Mostern, Ruth
Mostern, Pedro Antonio Noguera, Jodi O’Brien, Constance Penley,
Sabrina Ramet, Darrel Robinson, Beth Schneider, Carolyn Martin
Shaw, Nikhil Pal Singh, Stephen Small, Matthew Sparke, Becky
Thompson, Mamie Lois Twine, Vron Ware, Alys Weinbaum, Brackette
F. Williams, Ara Wilson, Howard Winant, John Wolfe, Joe Wood, Rai-
han Zamil, and Abebe Zegeye.
We are deeply appreciative of two extraordinary institutions—the
University of Washington, Seattle, and the University of California,
Santa Barbara—both of which provided numerous forms of institu-
tional support that enabled this project to be brought to completion.
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