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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: In Pursuit of Du Bois’s “Second-Sight” through Diasporic Dialogues
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Institutions as Gate-Keepers and Game-Changers
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RWB: Researching While Black and Female in Brazil
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Black Brazilians’ Reflections in the United States: Myth of a Racial Radical Paradise
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About this book
In this co-edited volume, Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman have invited contributors of African descent from the United States and Brazil to reflect on their multidimensional experiences in the field as researchers, collaborators, and allies to communities of color. Contributors promote an interdisciplinary perspective, as they represent the fields of sociology, political science, anthropology, and the humanities. They engage W.E.B. Du Bois' notion of 'second-sight,' which suggests that the unique positionality of Black researchers might provide them with advantages in their empirical observations and knowledge production. They expose the complex and contradictory efforts, discourses, and performances that Black researchers must use to implement and develop their community-centered research agenda. They illustrate that 'second-sight' is not inevitable but must be worked at and is sometimes not achieved in certain research and cultural contexts.
About the authors
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman is Assistant Professor of Sociology with a joint appointment in the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of South Florida, USA. She is a 2015–2016 Fulbright Scholar to Brazil.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production
Book Subtitle: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the United States and Brazil
Editors: Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137553942
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55393-5Published: 30 January 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55394-2Published: 08 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 226
Topics: Political Science, Philosophy of Science, Political Sociology, Latin American Culture, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Ethnicity Studies