ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|50 pages
Our theories take place
chapter 4|16 pages
“Central California's completely different”
part II|32 pages
Racialization is an ongoing (settler) process
chapter 5|15 pages
Tracking race, tracking settlerness
part III|60 pages
Refusing to speak against ourselves and our communities
chapter 9|12 pages
Undisciplining school discipline research
part IV|42 pages
Our stories are the heart of theory