White Logic, White Methods Racism and Methodology

by Zuberi, Tukufu; Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo

• ISBN13: 9780742542815
• ISBN10: 0742542815
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-02
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In this collection of essays, the authors examine how racial considerations have affected the way social science is conducted, how issues are framed, and how data are analyzed. With an assemblage of leading scholars, White Logic, White Methods explores the possibilities and necessary dethroning of current social research practices, and demands a complete overhaul of current methods toward a multicultural and pluralist approach to what we know, think, and question. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Toward a Definition of White Logic and White Methods	p. 3
Race as a "Variable"
Making Sense of Race and Racial Classification	p. 31
Methodologically Eliminating Race and Racism	p. 47
Race and Population Statistics in South Africa	p. 63
Logic of the Method
Causation and Race	p. 93
Swimming Upstream: Theory and Methodology in Race Research	p. 111
Deracializing Social Statistics: Problems in the Quantification of Race	p. 127
Interpreting the Problem
Anything but Racism: How Sociologists Limit the Significance of Racism	p. 137
Experiments in Black and White: Power and Privilege in Experimental Methodology	p. 153
"The End of Racism" as the New Doxa: New Strategies for Researching Race	p. 163
White Ethnographers on the Experiences of African American Men: Then and Now	p. 179
Dimensions of Segregation and Inequality Typically Missed
Indices of Racial Residential Segregation: A Critical Review and Redirection	p. 203
Qui Bono? Explaining-or Defending-Winners and Losers in the Competition for Educational Achievement	p. 217
Critical Demography and the Measurement of Racism: A Reproduction of Wealth, Status, and Power	p. 239
As Racial Boundaries "Fade": Racial Stratification and Interracial Marriage	p. 251
The Practice of Racial Research
The Gospel of Feel-Good Sociology: Race Relations as Pseudoscience and the Decline in the Relevance of American Academic Sociology in the Twenty-First Century	p. 271
To Win the War: Racial Research and the Pioneer Fund	p. 283
Being a Statistician Means Never Having to Say You're Certain	p. 295
Crime Statistics, Disparate Impact Analysis, and the Economic Disenfranchisement of Minority Ex-Offenders	p. 307
Conclusion
Telling the Real Tale of the Hunt: Toward a Race Conscious Sociology of Racial Stratification	p. 329
References	p. 343
Index	p. 389
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 411
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