Multiple Methods in Research on Twenty-First-Century Plantation Museums and Slave Cabins in the U.S. South

This chapter reviews the arsenal of quantitative strategies available for analyzing racial inequality, and discusses the benefits and drawbacks of each, and propose a plan for overcoming the deficiencies in each approach. It concerns a brief review of race research and present a formal model of racial inequality. The chapter reviews six quantitative methods and discusses how each addresses the complexity implicit in racial inequality. It concerns a prescription for quantitative race research that centers on using multiple techniques. The chapter suggests that resources, behaviors, and structure operate to create inequality in countless social encounters across the course of social actors' lives. It uses the categories as a frame to shed light on the implications and oversights of various approaches to studying racial inequality. Quantitative race research plays a critical role in realizing this promise as it is a means to conduct formal and often generalizable analyses of racial inequality.