Black Participatory Research: Power, Identity, and the Struggle for Justice in Education

Drame, Elizabeth R.; Irby, Decoteau J.

Black Participatory Research explores research partnerships that disrupt inequality, create change, and empower racially marginalized communities. Through presenting a series of co-reflections from professional and community researchers in different locations, this book explores the conflicts and tensions that emerge when professional interests, class and socio-economic statuses, age, geography, and cultural and language differences emerge alongside racial identity as central ways of seeing and being ourselves. Through the investigations of black researchers who collaborated in participatory research projects in post-Katrina New Orleans, USA the greater Philadelphia–New Jersey-Delaware region in the northeastern USA, and Senegal, West Africa, this book offers candid reflections of how shared identity, experiences, and differences shape the nature and process of participatory research.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-12-01

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137468987

DOI: 10.1057/9781137468994

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 205