Abstract
Recent qualitative researchers have argued the need for a more sensitizing approach to race research that elevates in importance the concerns and interests of those under study. This article illustrates how Herbert Blumer's work on race relations, critical race theory, and participatory action research may help this objective. These projects' similar epislemologies advance a type of social imagery that has powerful emancipatory implications in regard to racial oppression. Simply put, dominant renditions of social reality - including structural imperatives and racial identities - are illustrated to be socially constructed and hence open to negotiation. As a result of this shift, sensitizing methodologies (e.g., storytelling and collaboration) are employed that allow minorities an opportunity for self-representation. The liberating potential of all these projects can be further enhanced by relating their conceptual links to recent developments in contemporary social theory. Specifically, the typical concerns with process, interaction, and experiential meanings are intersubjectively mediated and not reducible to an objective-subjective theoretical framework. Rather than simply personal or external, all knowledge is recognized to be fluid and coproduced. By grounding research on this intersubjective region, equitable exchanges are possible.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 171-187 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Sociological Quarterly |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| State | Published - Mar 1 2000 |
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Another step in the study of race relations. / Esposito, Luigi; Murphy, John W.
In: Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 2, 01.03.2000, p. 171-187.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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