Review
"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"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.,coauthor of
Persistent Disparity and Boshamer Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Research Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics, Sociology and African American Studies at Duke University
"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,author of
Race and Racism in Britain, coeditor of
The Blackwell Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, and Professor of Sociology, South Bank University (London)
"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)
"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
About the Author
France Winddance Twine is Associate Professor at the University Of California, Santa Barbara. She is an editor of Racing Research, Researching Race, available from NYU Press.
Jonathan Warren is an Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.
