Critical Issues in Anti-Racist Research Methodologies

by Dei, George Jerry Sefa; Johal, Gurpreet Singh

• ISBN13: 9780820468006
• ISBN10: 0820468002
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

Anti-racism studies have blossomed over the years with scholarship and political work reinforcing each other to cement anti-racist change. But how do we understand anti-racist research? How is anti-racist research methodology different from other methods

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
1. Critical Issues in Anti-racist Research Methodologies
AN INTRODUCTION	1	(28)
George J. Sefa Dei
2. Consuming Narratives
QUESTIONING AUTHORITY AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH	29	(24)
Amar Wahab
3. Researching African Canadian Women
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION	53	(26)
Beverly Jean Daniel
4. Anti-colonial Research
WORKING AS AN ALLY WITH ABORIGINAL PEOPLES	79	(16)
Karen Max
5. Some Insights for Comparative Education Researchers from the Anti-racist Education Discourse on Epistemology, Ontology, and Axiology	95	(30)
Louise Gormley
6. Shattering the Comfort Zone
ETHICAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF ANTI-RACISM RESEARCH IN CHURCHES	125	(20)
Paula Butler
7. Re-searching the Spiritual:
APPLYING SOUL TO RESEARCH PRACTICE	145	(18)
Renu Sharma
8. Rethinking Anti-bias Approaches in Early Childhood Education
A SHIFT TOWARD ANTI-RACISM EDUCATION	163	(20)
Zeenat Janmohamed
9. Voices of Minority Immigrant Women
LANGUAGE, RACE, AND ANTI-RACIST FEMINIST METHODOLOGIES	183	(22)
Nuzhat Amin
10. Analyzing Women's Experiences
RACE, SOCIAL DIFFERENCE, AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN	205	(20)
Judy Hughes
11. Critical Ethnography
AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO CONDUCT ANTI-RACISM RESEARCH	225	(16)
Samina Jamal
12. Toward an Anti-racist Research Framework
THE CASE FORINTERVENTIVE IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWING	241	(28)
Andrew C. Okolie
13. Order in K.O.S.
ON RACE, RAGE, AND METHOD	269	(22)
Gurpreet Singh Johal
Contributors	291	(4)
Index	295