Full Description
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.
Contents
Preface 1. Learning to theorize meaningfully about race, racialization, and racism is humbling Part I. Our Theories Takes Place 2. Toward a Sociology of Indigenous Placemaking 3. They Are Here with Me: (Critical Race) Theories from My Flesh 4. "Central California's Completely Different:" Theorizing Racialization in the San Joaquin Valley Through a Rural Latinx Epistemology Part II. Racialization is an Ongoing (Settler) Process 5. Tracking race, tracking settlerness: Theorizing the political project of racialization and uncovering settler tracks in civic education 6. Anti-Muslim Racism: The Double Burden of Racism and Invisibility Part III. Refusing to Speak Against Ourselves and Our Communities 7. Abolitionist Praxis and Black Geographies in Social Work 8. Racialization, Quantification, and Criticalism: Finding Space in the Break 9. Undisciplining School Discipline Research: Refusing the Racial Paternalism to Punishment Pipeline 10. Engaging with Race and Racism in Research: Developing a Racial Analysis Part IV. Our Stories are the Heart of Theory 11. Our Stories are the Heart of Theory: Walking the Mosaic Path and Exorcising the Ghosts of Missionaries Past 12. Your Theory is Too Small: Beyond Stories of the Hunt 13. An Afrofuturist Dreams of Black Liberations: Disentangling Blackness from Fatalism Contributor Bios Index
