Julie Willett

Racing Research, Researching Race: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies Julie Willett

Marc Notes: Bibl. ref. & index; Avail. in paper @ $19.00. Review Quotes:"With verve, sophistication, and imagination, Julie Willett has discovered the roots of today's hair-care industry in separate searches by African American and Euro-American women for dignified labor, community advancement, and personal beautification. After Permanent Waves, getting your hair done will never be the same again--nor will the study of the shopfloor, professionalization, or the culture of consumption."-Eileen Boris, University of VirginaReview Quotes:"Timely and challenging, this innovative book engages questions and dilemmas that researchers on race and racism rarely talk about in public. Refreshingly clear and comparative in scope, it is a must reading in all courses about race and ethnic relations, calling for a fundamental rethinking of research agendas in this field."-John Solomos, author of "Race and Racism in Britain", coeditor of "The Blackwell Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies", and Professor of Sociology, South Bank University (London) Review Quotes:"Essential reading for all those whose research explicitly engages racial issues--and for all those who do not realize that their work inevitably engages racial issues."-Ruth Frankenberg, author of "White Women, Race Matters" and editor of "Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Cultural Criticism"Review Quotes: ("Points to the ethical dilemmas of researchers researching race among communities that are at once 'victims' of racism and active in the continued process of racialization.")-(Rinaldo Walcott), (author of "Black Like Who?", and Professor of Humanities, York University (Canada)) Review Quotes: ("A remarkable collection of essays interrogating the political, methodological and ethical dilemmas of conducting research in racially stratified societies. These theoretically astute and ethnographically rich case studies compellingly demonstrate how the production of knowledge is framed and mediated by the racialized subject positions held by social scientists. Racing Research, Researching Race will no doubt incite a critical and long overdue discussion of the racial politics of ethnographic fieldwork.")-(Steven Gregory), (author of "Black Corona", and Professor of Africana and American Studies at New York University) Review Quotes: ("Timely and challenging, this innovative book engages questions and dilemmas that researchers on race and racism rarely talk about in public. Refreshingly clear and comparative in scope, it is a must reading in all courses about race and ethnic relations, calling for a fundamental rethinking of research agendas in this field.")-(John Solomos), (author of "Race and Racism in Britain", coeditor of "The Blackwell Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies", and Professor of Sociology, South Bank University (London)) Review Quotes: ("Essential reading for all those whose research explicitly engages racial issues--and for all those who do not realize that their work inevitably engages racial issues.")-(Ruth Frankenberg), (author of "White Women, Race Matters" and editor of "Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Cultural Criticism") Review Quotes: ("Absolutely critical reading. This volume powerfully explores how scholars' own racial background shapes the analytical lens with which they view whiteness, blackness . . . the exoticism and eroticism of racial 'others' and the domain of white privilege.")-(William Darity Jr.), (coauthor of "Persistent Disparity" and Boshamer Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Research Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics, Sociology and African American Studies at Duke University) Review Quotes:"Points to the ethical dilemmas of researchers researching race among communities that are at once 'victims' of racism and active in the continued process of racialization."-Rinaldo Walcott, author of "Black Like Who?", and Professor of Humanities, York University (Canada) Review Quotes:"Absolutely critical reading. This volume powerfully explores how scholars' own racial background shapes the analytical lens with which they view whiteness, blackness . . . the exoticism and eroticism of racial 'others' and the domain of white privilege."-William Darity Jr., coauthor of "Persistent Disparity" and Boshamer Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Research Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics, Sociology and African American Studies at Duke UniversityReview Quotes:"A remarkable collection of essays interrogating the political, methodological and ethical dilemmas of conducting research in racially stratified societies. These theoretically astute and ethnographically rich case studies compellingly demonstrate how the production of knowledge is framed and mediated by the racialized subject positions held by social scientists. Racing Research, Researching Race will no doubt incite a critical and long overdue discussion of the racial politics of ethnographic fieldwork."-Steven Gregory, author of "Black Corona", and Professor of Africana and American Studies at New York UniversityReview Quotes:"Combines an evocative portrait of the world of small town beauty shops with a provocative analysis of the hairdressing industry's racial, class, and gender faultlines. Julie Willett explores both the promises of a skilled profession for individual women, white and black, and the realities of low wages, long hours, segregated markets, and assembly-line salons. Covering the entire sweep from the early twentieth century through the present day, this book deserves a prominent, and permanent, place on the reading lists of women's and labor historians." -Nancy Hewitt, The State University of New Jersey, RutgersReview Quotes:"Offers an unusually comprehensive look at a significant twentieth-century industry and female preoccupation."-"American Historical Review", Review Quotes:"A cut above most workplace histories. Looking at the separate but sometimes overlapping development of European and African-American hairdressing from the early twentieth century to the present, Willett shows how race shaped different trajectories for black and white salons." -"Lingua Franca", Review Quotes:"Refreshing to read a history so firmly historicized and grounded in working-class and Afro-American history." -"Journal of Social History", Biographical Note: Jonathan Warren is an Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. Review Citations:

Black Issues Book Review 01/01/2001 pg. 50 (EAN 9780814782422, Paperback)

Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2001 pg. 111 (EAN 9780814782422, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Willett, Julie Julie Willett is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. Contributor Bio:  Twine, France Winddance France Winddance Twine is Associate Professor at the University Of California, Santa Barbara. She is an editor of Racing Research, Researching Race, available from NYU Press. Contributor Bio:  Warren, Jonathan Jonathan Warren is an Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.