White logic, white methods
Subtitle: racism and methodology
By: edited by Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.
Contributors: Zuberi, Tukufu.; Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 1962-
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780742542808; 9780742542815
Subjects: Race relations -- Research -- Methodology; Racism; Prejudices; African Americans -- Research -- Statistical methods; United States -- Race relations -- Research -- Statistical methods
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-387) and index.