Working Method: Research and Social Justice (Critical Socialthought)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Series Editor’s Introduction......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Introduction Compositional Studies in Four Parts: Critical Theorizing and Analysis on Social (In)Justice......Page 14
SECTION 1 Full Composition and Initial Fracturing......Page 24
CHAPTER 1 Dear Zora: A Letter to Zora Neale Hurston Fifty Years After Brown......Page 26
We Begin With Echoes: Hearing Voices Across Fifty Years Since Brown......Page 28
Echoes: The Faultlines of Racial Justice and Public Education......Page 29
The Design......Page 30
On Academic Aspirations......Page 31
On Racial Equity in Schools......Page 32
Interrogating Educational Finance Inequities......Page 34
On the Other Side of the Tracks Within Desegregated Schools......Page 36
Small, Detracked Urban Schools: A Funny Thing Happened to Brown on the Way to the 21st Century......Page 42
On Perceived Responsiveness of Educators......Page 43
“I’m Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired” (Ella Baker)......Page 45
SECTION 2 Deep Work Within a Fracture......Page 48
CHAPTER 2 Race, Gender, and Critique: African American Women and Domestic Violence in the 1980s and 1990s......Page 50
The Sample......Page 53
White Women’s Critique of Neighborhood and Community......Page 55
African American Women’s Critique of Neighborhood and Community......Page 59
White and African American Women on Violence in the Home......Page 64
Concluding Remarks......Page 72
CHAPTER 3 Civics Lessons: The Color and Class of Betrayal......Page 76
Methodology......Page 78
Cumulative Inequity: Schooling Toward Alienation......Page 79
From Yearning to Anger......Page 80
Pride to Shame......Page 83
Filth......Page 84
“It’s on Me”: Self-Blame and Academic Troubles......Page 86
Liberty and Justice—For Whom? From Local Engagements to Civic Alienation......Page 88
Hearing Problems......Page 90
The Impact on Academic Performance......Page 91
Going to College?......Page 94
Civics Lessons......Page 95
SECTION 3 Designs for Historic Analysis......Page 98
CHAPTER 4 Gender, Masculinity, and the New Economy......Page 100
Changing Economies, Changing Gender......Page 101
Concluding Remarks......Page 113
SECTION 4 Designs to Document Sites of Possibility......Page 116
CHAPTER 5 Participatory Action Research: From Within and Beyond Prison Bars......Page 118
A Too-Brief History of PAR......Page 119
Relationships, Responsibilities, and Action at the Heart of Participatory Research......Page 121
A Note on Limits and Responsibility......Page 122
The Context for the Project......Page 123
Study Design......Page 125
To What Extent Does Engagment in College and Completion of a Degree Affect Women's Psychological Sense of Themselves, Past, Present, and Future?......Page 126
We Created Among Us: A Team of Women Scholars......Page 131
And Yet: Between Us Inside and Out......Page 132
Creating the Conditions for Collaboration: The Undergraduate and Graduate Seminars......Page 133
Privacy, Vulnerability, and Surveillance......Page 134
Self-Censorship: An Insider’s Dilemma......Page 135
Issues of Power Among the PAR Team......Page 136
Emotions at the Table......Page 137
Audience......Page 138
Questions of Generalizability......Page 139
What Is to Be Gained From PAR?......Page 140
CHAPTER 6 Extraordinary Conversations in Public Schools......Page 144
Social Spaces for Challenge......Page 145
Pushing the Borders of Gender and Race......Page 147
Baring Secrets......Page 149
Distancing......Page 151
February 10, 1997 (Field Notes)......Page 156
April 22, 1997 (8th Grade Group)......Page 157
Creating an Intellectual and Ethical Community Across Borders......Page 158
December Through February: The Melting, and Then Partial Restoration, of Privilege......Page 162
March Through April: Playing With Power, Shifting, and Reversals......Page 166
April Through June: Coalitions, Standpoints, Speaking Truth to Power…Preparing for the “Real World”......Page 169
Conclusion......Page 170
Epilogue......Page 174
Endnotes......Page 176
References......Page 180
Index......Page 200