Rutledge M. Dennis

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

Convergences and divergences in race theorizing: a critical assessment of race formation theory and systemic racism theory

Attempts to conceptualize and capture the subtleties and nuances of race and racism continue unabated in sociology, the social sciences and the humanities. That this is so speaks volumes regarding the myth and the metaphysics of race in contemporary social life. We continue to probe into the often murky, and uncharted, waters of racial explorations because our knowledge of race and racial matters is seemingly never sufficient to assure us that we know all we need to know to understand the dimensions of race in order to navigate unscathed through troublesome racial waters that often threaten to engulf us during periods of crises. Theories of race and racism are often helpful during these periods, and just as in mainstream sociology various theoretical models have been proffered, each asserting a claim to represent societal reality, theories of race and racism are constructed to affirm or refute one or more perspectives on society with respect to race and racial issues and how, and in what circumstances, the theories depict or reflect social reality. A secondary, but important, issue concerns the place and role of theory in the logic of race and theories of racism. This review constitutes a dual critique in that it critiques one race theoretical model, systemic racism theory, which critiques another theoretical model, race formation theory (RFT). It is, therefore, a critique within a critique; to adequately critique and understand the underlying assumptions of systemic racism theory and its critique of race formation theory, it was imperative to understand the logic and the arguments used in its evaluation. Crucial to the evaluation of both theories is the issue of the manner in which theories and particular Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2013 Vol. 36, No. 6, 982 988, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2013.758867

The black intellectuals

Intellectuals and social structure, Rutledge M. Dennis. Part 1 Toward a theory of black intellectuals: black intellectuals and others - a critical survey, Harold W. Cruse radical black intellectual thought, John N. Stanfield. Part 2 Race, class and capitalism: racism and capitalism - the critical theories of Oliver Cox, Doris Y. Wilkinson C.L.R. James and nationalism in the Caribbean, Stefano Harney Du Bois and the dialectics of nationalism and internationalism, Rutledge M. Dennis Fraizer on race and class - myths and realities, John N. Stanfield. Part 2 Cultural politics: pragmatism and radicalism in the social thought of Cornel West, Earnest Bracey James Baldwin and the fire next time - the prophetic vision of a black intellectual, Rodney D. Coates. Part 4 Public intellectuals: political engagement and the rise of African American public intellectuals, Alford A. Young black intellectuals and the politics of race - the affirmative action debate, W. Avon Drake.

The classics revisited

Elliot Rudwick, W.E.B. DUBOIS: VOICE OF THE BLACK PROTEST MOVEMENT, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1982, 400pp.,

Mays, Benjamin (1894–1984)

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