New Approaches to Inequality Research with Youth; Theorizing Race Beyond the Traditions of our Disciplines; 1

Those engaging in research to reduce youth inequality know that robust and resonant theories are needed alongside strong methods to study racialization, racism, and the consequences of racial categorization. This edited volume shares contributors’ first-person narrations of some of the hard-fought learnings and challenges of breaking from the traditions of their disciplinary fields and finding new and reclaimed ways to think about race. Featuring contributors’ narrations of how they came to engage with compelling theories of Blackness, Indigeneity, and/or racialization, and how such theories inform the social science research they do with young people, this timely and consequential text tells a multi-disciplinary story about the careful reading and co-theorizing that is required to refuse universal theories of Blackness, Indigeneity, and racialization. Cover Endorsements Half Title Title Page Copyright Page CONTENTS Preface 1. Learning to theorize meaningfully about race, racialization, and racism is humbling Excavating compelling theories of Blackness, Indigeneity, and racialization A book across many disciplines (and beyond them) How this book came to be Organization of this book Writing as a way of knowing A reminder to carry Acknowledgments References Part I: Our theories take place References 2. Toward a sociology of Indigenous placemaking Past: Reckoning with sociology's investment in Indigenous erasure Present: Denying Indigenous sovereignty and knowledge production Future: Indigenous placemaking in the study of inequality and racialization References 3. They are here with me: (Critical Race) Theories from my flesh Introduction A place called home, on New Orleans and mis-education Critical Race Theory: A blues epistemology Coda Notes References 4. "Central California's completely different": Theorizing racialization in the San Joaquin Valley through a rural Latinx epistemology A rural Latina epistemological intervention into critical race, feminist, and spatial theories in educational research Rural Latinx youth's understanding of their/our racialization in the San Joaquin Valley Centering place in race-centered educational research, policy, and practice Notes References Part II: Racialization is an ongoing (settler) process References 5. Tracking race, tracking settlerness: Theorizing the political project of racialization and uncovering settler tracks in civic education Lynwood as theory: Community as a curriculum on race Race through contrast and putting theory into (teaching) practice Race-property-politics: Racialization via settler colonialism and its impact on civic education The Ohio curriculum: Shifting the gaze onto white youth and predominantly white schools Uncovering settler tracks in civic education: Settlerness as a problem in education research Note References 6. Anti-Muslim racism: The double burden of racism and invisibility Early life course Theoretical life course The evolution of the "good Muslim" Birth of scholarship on anti-Muslim racism and health Islamophobia and health: A racialized experience Anti-Muslim racism: A double burden across the life course References Part III: Refusing to speak against ourselves and our communities References 7. Abolitionist praxis and Black geographies in social work Social work and geographies of domination Constructing "the gap" through dominant social work ethics Oppositional geographies of the "unimaginable" gap—Black women's geographies as demonic grounds in social work Family policing DCF: Divide and conquering families—theorizing within a matrix of domination Oppositional geography as a possibility References 8. Racialization, quantification, and criticalism: Finding space in the break How quantification gets race and racialization wrong Repetition and quantification Quantification and new materialism Quantitative + criticalism The art of social quantification A first foray into the break Being in the unknown References 9. Undisciplining school discipline research: Refusing the racial paternalism to punishment pipeline A story of school punishment: How anti-Blackness makes troublemakers A story of reform: And the persistence of paternalistic damage imagery A fugitive story of the wayward and undisciplining research on youth Toward new stories of refusals References 10. Engaging with race and racism in research: Developing a racial analysis Using race as an organizing tool or control variable Shifting toward a racial analysis Unpacking racial categories Developing a racial analysis Where do we go from here? What are the larger implications of using established racial categories in a study? How might we understand the variation within established racial categories? How can we construct more complex measures of race? How can we address the complexity of race in our research designs? How can we take into account the ways in which race is manifested in institutions and policies? What are the implications of not addressing racialized structures and institutions? Conclusion References Part IV: Our stories are the heart of theory References 11. Our stories are the heart of theory: Walking the mosaic path and exorcising the ghosts of missionaries past The broken clay pot: Gathering fragments and building a Mosaic Path Exploring the haunted archive: Exorcizing the ghosts of missionaries past Reflections on sea glass Note References 12. Your theory is too small: Beyond stories of the hunt Beyond stories of the hunt Framing theory Elementary school: When right answers are wrong Graduate school: When your stories are not enough Tenure track: Beyond stories of the hunt Whose stories matter? Theory is lineage work Notes References 13. An Afrofuturist dreams of Black liberations: Disentangling Blackness from fatalism References Contributors' Short Bios Index a gorgeous and essential collection of first-person accounts by researchers dedicated to approaching the study of race and inequality with Black and Indigenous youth with care, respect, and imagination. The volume unveils the transformative power of using transdisciplinary and co-constructed theories and methods, inspiring readers to challenge traditional frameworks and forge new paths in research to reduce inequality.