1st Edition

New Approaches to Inequality Research with Youth Theorizing Race Beyond the Traditions of Our Disciplines

Edited By Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang, Jade Nixon Copyright 2024
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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