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Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise,withoutthepriorpermissionofthepublisher.BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailableLibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataWhitelogic,whitemethods:racismandmethodology
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editedbyTukufuZuberiandEduardoBonilla-Silva.p.cm.ISBN-13:978-0-7425-4280-8(doth:alk.paper)ISBN-I0:0-7425-4280-7(doth:alk.paper)ISBN-13:978-0-7425-4281-5(pbk.:alk.paper)ISBN-I0:0-7425-4281-5(pbk.:alk.paper)1.Racerelations-Research-Methodology.2.Racism.3.Prejudices.4.UnitedStates-Racerelations-Research-Statisticalmethods.5.AfricanAmericans-Research-Statisticalmethods.I.Zuberi,Tukufu.II.Bonilla-Silva,Eduardo,1962-HT1521.W4452008305.8-dc222007046456PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica
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Contents
PartI:Introduction1TowardaDefinitionofWhiteLogicandWhiteMethods
EduardoBonilla-SilvaandThkufuZuberi
3
PartII:Raceasa"Variable"2MakingSenseofRaceandRacialClassification
AngelaJames
3MethodologicallyEliminatingRaceandRacism
CaroleMarks
4RaceandPopulationStatisticsinSouthAfrica
AkilKokayiKhalfani,ThkufuZuberi,SulaimanBah,andPali
J.
Lehohla
31
47
63
PartIII:LogicoftheMethod5CausationandRace
Paul
W.
Holland
93
6SwimmingUpstream:TheoryandMethodologyinRaceResearch
QuincyThomasStewart
111
v
 
vi
Contents
7DeracializingSocialStatistics:ProblemsintheQuantificationofRace
TukufuZuberi
127PartIV:InterpretingtheProblem8AnythingbutRacism:HowSociologistsLimittheSignificanceofRacism
EduardoBonilla-SilvaandGianpaoloBaiocchi
9ExperimentsinBlackandWhite:PowerandPrivilegeinExperimentalMethodology
CarlaGoar
10"TheEndofRacism"astheNewDoxa:NewStrategiesforResearchingRace
Charles
A.
Gallagher
11WhiteEthnographersontheExperiencesofAfricanAmericanMen:ThenandNow
Alford
A.
YoungJT.
137
153163179PartV:DimensionsofSegregationandInequalityTypicallyMissed12IndicesofRacialResidentialSegregation:ACriticalReviewandRedirection203
BrentBerry
13QuiBono?Explaining-orDefending-WinnersandLosersintheCompetitionforEducationalAchievement217
Walter
R.
Allen,Susan
A.
Suh,GloriaGonzalez,andJoshuaYang
14CriticalDemographyandtheMeasurementofRacism:AReproductionofWealth,Status,andPower
HaywardDerrickHortonandLoriLatriceSykes
23915AsRacialBoundaries"Fade":RacialStratificationandInterracialMarriage
Jenifer
L.
BratterandThkufuZuberi
251PartVI:ThePracticeofRacialResearch16TheGospelofFeel-GoodSociology:RaceRelationsasPseudoscienceandtheDeclineintheRelevanceofAmericanAcademicSociologyintheTwenty-FirstCentury271
John
H.
StanfieldII
Contents
17ToWintheWar:RacialResearchandthePioneerFund
William
H.
Tucker
18BeingaStatisticianMeansNeverHavingtoSayYou'reCertain
Oscar
H.
GandyJT.
19CrimeStatistics,DisparateImpactAnalysis,andtheEconomicDisenfranchisementofMinorityEx-Offenders
ReginaAustin
PartVII:Conclusion20TellingtheRealTaleoftheHunt:TowardaRaceConsciousSociologyofRacialStratification
ThkufuZuberiandEduardoBonilla-Silva
ReferencesIndexAbouttheEditorsandContributors
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1
TowardaDefinition
ofWhite
LogicandWhiteMethods
EduardoBonilla-SilvaandTukufuZuberi
Thebestavailablemethodsofsociologicalresearchareatpresentsoli-abletoinaccuraciesthatthecarefulstudentdisclosestheresultsofin-dividualresearchwithdiffidence;heknowsthattheyareliabletoerrorfromtheseeminglyineradicablefaultsofthestatisticalmethod,toevengreatererrorfromthemethodsofgeneralobservation,and,aboveall,hemustevertremblelestsomepersonalbias,somemoralconvictionorsomeunconscioustrendofthoughtduetoprevioustraining,hastoadegreedistortedthepictureinhisview.Convictionsonallgreatmattersofhumaninterestonemusthavetoagreaterorlessdegree,andtheywillentertosomeextentintothemostcold-bloodedscientificresearchasadisturbingfactor.
-w.
E.B.DuBois,
ThePhiladelphiaNegro:
A
SocialStudy(1899)
Inmostrespects,socialsciencetodayisunrecognizablydifferentfromwhat
it
wasintheyearswhenW.E.
B.
DuBoiswrotehisclassicbook
ThePhiladel-phiaNegro.
Thesocialscienceshavedevelopedawholeseriesofmethodsofobservationandanalysis,andonthebasisofthesedevelopments,havepro-ceededtodescribethesocialworldwithadegreeofconfidenceandcon-sensusthatonlyafewoptimistscouldhaveexpectedinDuBois'stime.Manymoresocialscientistsareengagedinresearch,andtheresourcesavail-ableforsocialresearchhavealsogreatlyincreasedfromthethousandstothebillions.ThepoliticalconformityanddevelopmentofconvincingmethodshaveledtothemarriageofsocialresearchwithsocialpolicytoanextentthatwasnotpossibleinDuBois'stime,especiallyforasocialscien-tistwhowasalsoanAfricanAmerican.Thepassageofyearsandpositive
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