ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a framework for how researchers can incorporate race and racism into their research and draws upon my own experiences and research to demonstrate how scholarship can be shifted toward a racial analysis. The key ideas were originally part of a presentation for quantitative researchers across the social sciences who were engaged in projects to reduce inequality, and my charge was to get them to think about their work in different ways, and specifically how they could more deeply engage with race and racial inequality in their work. The ideas and suggestions presented in this chapter for developing a racial analysis are useful for all scholars, especially those who are new to thinking about race, racism, and racial categories as objects of analysis.
