New Approaches to Inequality Research with Youth

Eve Tuck is a professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies, and Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Methodologies with Youth and Communities at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.K. Wayne Yang is a professor of Ethnic Studies and Provost of John Muir College at the University of California, San Diego, USA.Jade Nixon is a Ph.D. candidate at the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada.

"Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang, and Jade Nixon have curated 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."Fabienne Doucet, Executive Director, NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools"We cannot dismantle racism if we do not understand its depths, dynamics, and reinventions. In ways both vulnerable and courageous, the authors offer their intimate stories to produce stronger theories of racism, racialization, and settler colonialism. This volume is a source of inspiration for all those seeking to advance social justice."Vivian Tseng, President and CEO, Foundation for Child Development"This critical and timely book promises to change your life and the world."Michelle M. Jacob (Yakama) "This book makes an essential and timely contribution to scholarship on theoretical commitments to researching racial and settler colonial marginalization with young people. Grounded in an ethos of refusing deficit-centered and universalizing theories of marginalized youth, the book powerfully narrates possibilities for storying theory alongside young people in ways that are relational, anticolonial, and that carefully attend to the significance of place in making theory." Dr. Fikile Nxumalo, Associate Professor and Director of The Childhood Place Pedagogy Lab, OISE, University of Toronto, Author of Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education"Too often in the social sciences, arid conceptions of racial inequality result in poorly-informed efforts to respond, and weak interpretations of research findings. Breaking new ground in conceptualizing Blackness, Indigeneity, and racialization, this innovative collection promises to inspire deeper and more theoretically grounded studies that will be better positioned than those of the past to improve the lives of those who continue to be harmed by racial oppression."Adam Gamoran, President, William T. Grant Foundation

• Preface 1. Learning to theorize meaningfully about race, racialization, and racism is humbling Part I. Our Theories Takes Place 2. Toward a Sociology of Indigenous Placemaking 3. They Are Here with Me: (Critical Race) Theories from My Flesh 4. "Central California’s Completely Different:" Theorizing Racialization in the San Joaquin Valley Through a Rural Latinx Epistemology Part II. Racialization is an Ongoing (Settler) Process 5. Tracking race, tracking settlerness: Theorizing the political project of racialization and uncovering settler tracks in civic education 6. Anti-Muslim Racism: The Double Burden of Racism and Invisibility Part III. Refusing to Speak Against Ourselves and Our Communities 7. Abolitionist Praxis and Black Geographies in Social Work 8. Racialization, Quantification, and Criticalism: Finding Space in the Break 9. Undisciplining School Discipline Research: Refusing the Racial Paternalism to Punishment Pipeline 10. Engaging with Race and Racism in Research: Developing a Racial Analysis Part IV. Our Stories are the Heart of Theory 11. Our Stories are the Heart of Theory: Walking the Mosaic Path and Exorcising the Ghosts of Missionaries Past 12. Your Theory is Too Small: Beyond Stories of the Hunt 13. An Afrofuturist Dreams of Black Liberations: Disentangling Blackness from Fatalism Contributor Bios Index