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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787728103321

Autore

Bulmer Martin

Titolo

Researching Race and Racism [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2004

ISBN

1-134-41955-4

1-280-07748-4

0-203-64380-1

0-203-68389-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Social Research Today

Altri autori (Persone)

SolomosJohn

Disciplina

305.8/0072

Soggetti

Race

Racism - Research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Researching race and racism; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Researching race and racism; 1 Contemporary geopolitics and 'alterity' research; 2 Extolling eclecticism: Language, psychoanalysis and demographic analyses in the study of 'race' and racism; 3 Researching race and racism: French social sciences and international debates; 4 The study of racist events; 5 Researching 'mixed race' experience under slavery: Concepts, methods and data; 6 Three rules I go by in my ethnographic research on race and racism

7 On unsteady ground: Crafting and engaging in the critical study of whiteness8 Naming the unnameable: Sense and sensibilities in researching racism; 9 Writing race: Ethnography and the imagination of The Asian Gang; 10 Race, a word too much?: The French dilemma; 11 A life of sad, but justified, choices: Interviewing across (too) many divides; 12 Racial hierarchies in the USA and Britain: Investigating a politically sensitive issue; 13 Experiences in ethnographic interviewing about race: The inside and outside of it; 14 Writing in and against time; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Race and racism have become huge areas of study in the social sciences over the past two decades. However, whilst this has been



reflected in the growing body of theoretical and empirically based work, surprisingly little has been published that explores the methodological and practical issues involved in researching race. In Researching Race and Racism Martin Bulmer and John Solomos have brought together contributions from some of the leading researchers in the field, using the benefit of their experience to explore the practical and ethical issues involved in doing research in this s