Researching Race and Racism

Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134419548
• Subtopic: Discrimination & Race Relations
• Index: Social Sciences

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 sometimes controversial, often heavily politicised field. This book will provide students and researchers - both new to the field and experienced alike - with an invaluable tool to help them find their way.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on 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 whiteness
• 8 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