Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-387) and index.
Contents:
Toward a definition of white logic and white methods / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Tukufu Zuberi -- Making sense of race and racial classification / Angela James -- Methodologically eliminating race and racism / Carole Marks -- Race and population statistics in South Africa / Akil Kokayi Khalfani [and others] -- Causation and race / Paul W. Holland -- Swimming upstream : theory and methodology in race research / Quincy Thomas Stewart -- Deracializing social statistics : problems in the quantification of race / Tukufu Zuberi -- Anything but racism : how sociologists limit the significance of racism / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Gianpaolo Baiocchi -- Experiments in black and white : power and privilege in experimental methodology / Carla Goar -- "The end of racism" as the new doxa : new strategies for researching race / Charles A. Gallagher -- White ethnographers on the experiences of African American men : then and now / Alford A. Young Jr. -- Indices of racial residential segregation : a critical review and redirection / Brent Berry -- Qui bono? Explaining, or defending, winners and losers in the competition for educational achievement / Walter R. Allen [and others] -- Critical demography and the measurement of racism : a reproduction of wealth, status, and power / Hayward Derrick Horton and Lori Latrice Sykes -- As racial boundaries "fade" : racial stratification and interracial marriage / Jenifer L. Bratter and Tukufu Zuberi -- The gospel of feel-good sociology : race relations as pseudoscience and the decline in the relevance of American academic sociology in the twenty-first century / John H. Stanfield II -- To win the war : racial research and the pioneer fund / William H. Tucker -- Being a statistican means never having say you're certain / Oscar H. Gandy Jr. -- Crime statistics, disparate impact analysis, and the conomic disenfranchisement of minority ex-offenders / Regina Austin -- Telling the real tale of the hunt : toward a race conscious sociology of racial stratification / Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.
Summary:
Examines how the racial lenses of the social sciences and the subscription of social scientists to whites' racial common sense have limited their understanding of racial matters and handicapped their capacity to appreciate the significance of the "race effect" (they call it the "racial stratification effect"). With an assemblage of leading scholars, White Logic, White Methods explores the possibilities and necessary dethroning of current social research practices, and demands a complete overhaul of current methods, towards a multicultural and pluralist approach to what we know, think, and question. Readers in various social sciences will find useful the chapters in the collection, but all will agree that the introductory and concluding chapters to the volume (Towards a Definition of White Logic and White Methods, and Telling the Real Tale of the Hunt: Towards a Race Conscious Sociology of Racial Stratification) are likely to become classics in the field of racial and ethnic relations.
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