1st Edition
New Approaches to Inequality Research with Youth Theorizing Race Beyond the Traditions of Our Disciplines
Those engaging in research to reduce youth inequality know that robust and resonant theories are needed alongside strong methods to study racialization, racism, and the consequences of racial categorization. This edited volume shares contributors’ first-person narrations of some of the hard-fought learnings and challenges of breaking from the traditions of their disciplinary fields and finding new and reclaimed ways to think about race. Featuring contributors’ narrations of how they came to engage with compelling theories of Blackness, Indigeneity, and/or racialization, and how such theories inform the social science research they do with young people, this timely and consequential text tells a multi-disciplinary story about the careful reading and co-theorizing that is required to refuse universal theories of Blackness, Indigeneity, and racialization.
Preface
Chapter 1: Learning to theorize meaningfully about race, racialization, and racism is humbling
Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang, and Jade Nixon
Part I: Our Theories Takes Place
Edited by Jade Nixon
Chapter 2: Toward a Sociology of Indigenous Placemaking
Theresa Rocha Beardall
Chapter 3: They Are Here with Me: (Critical Race) Theories from My Flesh
Kevin Lawrence Henry Jr.
Chapter 4: "Central California’s Completely Different:" Theorizing Racialization in the San Joaquin Valley Through a Rural Latinx Epistemology
Mayra Puente
Part II: Racialization is an Ongoing (Settler) Process
Edited by Leah D. Doanne
Chapter 5:
Tracking race, tracking settlerness: Theorizing the political project of racialization and uncovering settler tracks in civic education
dinorah sánchez loza
Chapter 6:
Anti-Muslim Racism: The Double Burden of Racism and Invisibility
Goleen Samari
Part III: Refusing to Speak Against Ourselves and Our Communities
Edited by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
Chapter 7: Abolitionist Praxis and Black Geographies in Social Work
Victoria Copeland
Chapter 8: Racialization, Quantification, and Criticalism: Finding Space in the Break
Derek A. Houston
Chapter 9: Undisciplining School Discipline Research: Refusing the Racial Paternalism to Punishment Pipeline
Mahasan Offutt-Chaney
Chapter 10: Engaging with Race and Racism in Research: Developing a Racial Analysis
Dina G. Okamoto
Part IV: Our Stories are the Heart of Theory
Edited by Joanna L. Williams
Chapter 11: Our Stories are the Heart of Theory: Walking the Mosaic Path and Exorcising the Ghosts of Missionaries Past
Dani Ahuicapahtzin Cornejo
Chapter 12: Your Theory is Too Small: Beyond Stories of the Hunt
Antar A. Tichavakunda
Chapter 13: An Afrofuturist Dreams of Black Liberations: Disentangling Blackness from Fatalism
S. R. Toliver
Contributor Bios
Index
Biography
Eve Tuck is a professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies, and Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Methodologies with Youth and Communities at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.
K. Wayne Yang is a professor of Ethnic Studies and Provost of John Muir College at the University of California, San Diego, USA.
Jade Nixon is a Ph.D. candidate at the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada.
"Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang, and Jade Nixon have curated a gorgeous and essential collection of first-person accounts by researchers dedicated to approaching the study of race and inequality with Black and Indigenous youth with care, respect, and imagination. The volume unveils the transformative power of using transdisciplinary and co-constructed theories and methods, inspiring readers to challenge traditional frameworks and forge new paths in research to reduce inequality."
Fabienne Doucet, Executive Director, NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools
"We cannot dismantle racism if we do not understand its depths, dynamics, and reinventions. In ways both vulnerable and courageous, the authors offer their intimate stories to produce stronger theories of racism, racialization, and settler colonialism. This volume is a source of inspiration for all those seeking to advance social justice."
Vivian Tseng, President and CEO, Foundation for Child Development
"This critical and timely book promises to change your life and the world."
Michelle M. Jacob (Yakama)
"This book makes an essential and timely contribution to scholarship on theoretical commitments to researching racial and settler colonial marginalization with young people. Grounded in an ethos of refusing deficit-centered and universalizing theories of marginalized youth, the book powerfully narrates possibilities for storying theory alongside young people in ways that are relational, anticolonial, and that carefully attend to the significance of place in making theory."
Dr. Fikile Nxumalo, Associate Professor and Director of The Childhood Place Pedagogy Lab, OISE, University of Toronto, Author of Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education
"Too often in the social sciences, arid conceptions of racial inequality result in poorly-informed efforts to respond, and weak interpretations of research findings. Breaking new ground in conceptualizing Blackness, Indigeneity, and racialization, this innovative collection promises to inspire deeper and more theoretically grounded studies that will be better positioned than those of the past to improve the lives of those who continue to be harmed by racial oppression."
Adam Gamoran, President, William T. Grant Foundation
