John H. Stanfield

Race and ethnicity in research methods.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS Methodological Reflections - John H Stanfield II An Introduction Epistemological Considerations - John H Stanfield II PART TWO: QUALITATIVE METHODS Studying Across Differences - Margaret L Andersen Race, Class, and Gender in Qualitative Research Participant Observations - Rutledge M Dennis Ethnography as Personal Experience - Elisa Facio Analyzing Racism Through Discourse Analysis - Teun A van Dijk Some Methodological Reflections Urban Ethnography - Melvin D Williams Another Look PART THREE: QUANTITATIVE METHODS Demography and Race - Carole C Marks Measuring and Detecting Discrimination in the Post-Civil Rights Era - Samuel L Myers Jr Psychoeducational Assessment of Gifted and Talented African Americans - James M Patton Survey Research on African Americans - A Wade Smith Methodological Innovations PART FOUR: HISTORICAL/COMPARATIVE METHODS Toward a Multidimensional Historical Comparative Methodology - Duane Champagne Context, Process, and Causality The Comparative Study of Ethnicity - Charles C Ragin and Jeremy Hein Methodological and Conceptual Issues In the Archives - John H Stanfield II

Elite Families: Class and Power in Nineteenth-Century Boston.@@@The Other Brahmins: Boston's Black Upper Class, 1750-1950.

This pioneering work explores race and the social caste system in an atypical northern environment over a period of two centuries. Cromwell identifies those blacks in Boston who exercised political, economic, and social leadership from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, and effectively challenges the simplistic notions of hierarchy as they pertain to race.