James Joseph Scheurich is Associate Professor of Educational Administration at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Research Method in the Postmodern, and coeditor, with Robert Donmoyer and Michael Imber, of The Knowledge Base in Educational Administration: Multiple Perspectives, also published by SUNY Press.

"…James Scheurich demonstrates how scholarly and research practices contribute to and interrupt white racism." — Teaching Education"Scheurich's work is an effort to challenge white scholars to at least begin to question their own position, and how it impacts their understanding of schooling, society, and even on some levels, national identity. There are other scholarly works that highlight anti-racist work, but this book is different, in that it not only exemplifies the struggles, but also clarifies some aspects that many white scholars have not been mindful of in the past." — Frances V. Rains, The Pennsylvania State University"This book is creative in its polyphonic textuality and its 'multivoicedness,' and it continuously interrogates the ontological and epistemological normality of whiteness. It shows rather than tells what the process of anti-racism might look like. Many other books in the field of whiteness studies somehow seem to make 'closure.' This book leaves the discussion wide open for a constant revisioning." — Sofia Villenas, coeditor of Race Is... Race Isn't: Critical Race Theory and Qualitative Studies in Education

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I: ANTI-RACIST CRITIQUE AND DIALOGUE Chapter 1PrefaceSection 1: Toward a White Discourse on White RacismJames Joseph ScheurichSection 2: Response to a "White Discourse on White Racism"W. B. AllenSection 3: Advancing a White Discourse: A Response to ScheurichChristine E. SleeterSection 4: A Difficult, Confusing, Painful Problem That Requires Many Voices, Many PerspectivesJames Joseph Scheurich Chapter 2PrefaceSection 1: Coloring Epistemology: Are Our Research Epistemologies Racially Biased?James Joseph Scheurich and Michelle D. YoungSection 2: A Response to "Coloring Epistemology: Are Our Research Epistemologies Racially Biased?"Cynthia A. TysonSection 3: Coloring Within and Outside the Lines: Some CommentsSteven I. MillerSection 4: Rejoinder: In the United States of America, in Both Our Souls and Our Sciences, We Are Avoiding White RacismJames Joseph Scheurich and Michelle D. Young Part II: ANTI-RACIST RESPONSES TO THE SCHOLARSHIP OF OTHERS Chapter 3PrefaceThe Buck Stops Here in Our Preparations Programs: Educative Leadership for All Children (No Exceptions Allowed)James Joseph Scheurich and Julie Laible Chapter 4PrefaceSection 1: Educational Leadership for Democratic Purpose: What Do We Mean?Carl D. GlickmanSection 2: Commentary: The Grave Dangers in the Discourse on DemocracyJames Joseph ScheurichSection 3: Commentary: A Response to the Discourse on Democracy: A Dangerous RetreatCarl D. Glickman Chapter 5PrefaceThe Building Blocks of Educational Administration: A Dialogic Review of the First Three Chapters of the New Handbook of Research in Educational AdministrationJay D. Scribner, Gerardo R. Lopéz, James W. Koschoreck, Kanya Mahitivanichcha, and James Joseph Scheurich Chapter 6PrefaceThe Destructive Desire for a Depoliticized Ethnographic Methodology: Response to Harry WolcottJames Joseph Scheurich Part III: ANTI-RACIST REPRESENTATIONS OF THE RACIAL "OTHER" Chapter 7PrefaceHighly Successful and Loving Public Elementary Schools Populated Mainly by Low SES Children of Color: Core Beliefs and Cultural CharacteristicsJames Joseph Scheurich Chapter 8PrefaceWindows/Ventanas: A Postmodern Re-Presentation of Children in MigrancyGerardo R. Lopéz, Miguel A. Guajardo, and James Joseph Scheurich Chapter 9PrefaceRacing Representation: A "Raza Realist" Narration of Migrant Students, Their Educación and Their ContextoGerardo Lopéz, Miguel Guajardo, Maricela Oliva, and James Joseph Scheurich Chapter 10PrefaceLabores de la Vida/The Labors of Life: A Description of a Video Documentary of Mexican-American Adults Who Were Migrant Agricultural Workers as Children and a Commentary by Miguel GuajardoMiguel Guajardo, Patricia Sánchez, Elissa Fineman, and James Joseph Scheurich ReferencesContributorsIndex