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New Racism

Revisiting Researcher Accountabilities

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Norma Romm

    1. Manaba Beach, South Africa

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  • Explores the rationale of various research approaches to (new forms of) racism.
  • Revisits inquiries into new racism by exploring their potential social effects.
  • Offers a view of discursively accountable inquiry into racism.
  • Proposes how social inquiry can be (re)tuned to incorporate ethical concerns.
  • Provides for transcultural meaning-making to be catered for in inquiries

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. General Introduction

    • Norma Romm
    Pages 1-32

  3. Conceptualizing New Racism in Relation to Old-Fashioned Racism: Concepts and Research Approaches

    • Norma Romm
    Pages 33-102

  4. Experimental Research: Studying Variables to Examine Causal Effects in Terms of Mitigating Against the Potential of Racism

    • Norma Romm
    Pages 103-169

  5. Survey Research: Examining Expressed Feelings and Views on Racial(ized) Issues as Variables Along with Other Variables

    • Norma Romm
    Pages 171-214

  6. Intensive Interviewing as Research: Generating In-Depth Talk to Explore Experiences/Cognitions of Racism

    • Norma Romm
    Pages 215-267

  7. Ethnographic Research: Exploring the Quality of Social Life in Social Settings

    • Norma Romm
    Pages 269-313

  8. Action Research: Exploring in Action the Meaning of Research as Change in Complex Living Systems

    • Norma Romm
    Pages 315-372

  9. Research Conducted in Terms of Retroductive Processes: Rethinking the Theorization of Racism

    • Norma Romm
    Pages 373-427

  10. General Conclusion: Reviewing Research Approaches, Conceptualizing Mixed-Research Designs, and Writing into One Another’s Stories

    • Norma Romm
    Pages 429-450

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 451-496
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This book develops a debate around responsible social inquiry into new racism. A variety of ways of researching new forms of racism (for example, aversive, modern, cultural, purportedly color-blind, and new racism) are addressed. Experiments that have been undertaken to inquire into group identity and people’s implicit bias in relation to those perceived as "other" are critically explored and their potential consequences reconsidered. The book also critically explores survey research, which, it is argued, can serve to reinforce the notion of the existence of ethnoracial groups with defined boundaries that inhere in social life. The book considers interviewing (including focus group interviewing) and case study research (including participant observation/ethnography) in terms of possibilities for moving beyond new forms of racism. Action research (defined by the understanding of an inextricable link between knowing and acting) is examined in-depth in terms of the hopes to "make a difference" at the moment of inquiry. Types of retroductive logic that are used to examine underlying structures that arguably unduly constrain people’s life chances and render human relationships inhumane are also explored. The book draws together the different arguments; and it proposes ways in which the design of research into new racism can better approached as well as ways in which dialogue around processes of inquiry and the products thereof can be better fostered. Suggestions for nurturing humane social relationships that provide for transcultural meaning-making are threaded through the text.

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  • Manaba Beach, South Africa

    Norma Romm

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