New Approaches to Inequality Research with Youth

Those engaging in research to reduce youth inequality know that robust and resonant theories are needed alongside strong methods to study racialization, racism, and the consequences of racial categorization. This edited volume shares contributors’ first-person narrations of some of the hard-fought learnings and challenges of breaking from the traditions of their disciplinary fields and finding new and reclaimed ways to think about race. Featuring contributors’ narrations of how they came to engage with compelling theories of Blackness, Indigeneity, and/or racialization, and how such theories inform the social science research they do with young people, this timely and consequential text tells a multi-disciplinary story about the careful reading and co-theorizing that is required to refuse universal theories of Blackness, Indigeneity, and racialization.

Eve Tuck is a professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies, and Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Methodologies with Youth and Communities at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.

K. Wayne Yang is a professor of Ethnic Studies and Provost of John Muir College at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

Jade Nixon is a Ph.D. candidate at the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada.