Racing Research, Researching Race Racing Research, Researching Race Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies edited by France Winddance Twine and Jonathan W. Warren a New York University Press new york and london new york university press New York and London © 2000 by France Winddance Twine and Jonathan W. Warren Chapter 8 © Cambridge University Press. Reprinted by permission fromIn Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). © Chapter 9 Mitchell Duneier © Afterword by Howard S. Becker All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Racing research, researching race : methodological dilemmas in critical race studies / edited by France Winddance Twine and Jonathan W. Warren. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8147-8242-6 (pbk. : acid-free paper) — ISBN 0-8147-8241-8 (cloth : acid-free paper) 1. Race—Research—Methodology. 2. Sociology—Research— Methodology. 3. Race awareness. 4. Racism. 5. United States— Race relations. I. Twine, France Winddance, 1960– II. Warren, Jonathan W. HT1506 .R33 2000 305.8'007'2073—dc21 00-008317 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Kristin Luker and In Memory of Joe Wood, Jr., who disappeared on Mount Rainier on July 8, 1999 Contents Acknowledgments ix Foreword xi Troy Duster 1 Racial Ideologies and Racial Methodologies 1 France Winddance Twine 2 Research as an Act of Betrayal: Researching Race in an Asian Community in Los Angeles 35 Naheed Islam 3 White Like Me? Methods, Meaning, and Manipulation in the Field of White Studies 67 Charles A. Gallagher 4 White on White: Interviewing Women in U.S. White Supremacist Groups 93 Kathleen M. Blee 5 Doing My Homework: The Autoethnography of a White Teenage Girl 111 Lorraine Delia Kenny 6 Masters in the Field: White Talk, White Privilege, White Biases 135 Jonathan W. Warren 7 Racism, Eroticism, and the Paradoxes of a U.S. Black Researcher in Brazil 165 Michael G. Hanchard vii viii Contents 8 Violating Apartheid in the United States: On the Streets and in Academia 187 Philippe Bourgois 9 Race and Peeing on Sixth Avenue 215 Mitchell Duneier 10 Women in Prison: Researching Race in Three National Contexts 227 Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Angela Y. Davis Afterword: Racism and the Research Process 247 Howard S. Becker Bibliography 255 Contributors 273 Index 277 Acknowledgments Wethank the contributors to this volume for patiently working with us during the past years. We are very grateful to our editor, Niko Pfund, whose enthusiasm, encouragement, and belief in this project brought it to completion. During the editorial process, Despina Papazoglou Gim- bel handled this manuscript with skill and grace. We have been sus- tained intellectually, politically, and emotionally by friends and col- leagues, old and new: Richard Appelbaum, Ingrid Banks, Tani Barlow, Vilna Bashi, Howard S. Becker, Carla Simone Barbosa de Brito, Kum- Kum Bhavnani, William T. Bielby, Denise Bielby, Kathleen Blee, Philippe Bourgois, Karen Brodkin, Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Dave Carlson, Héctor Carrilla, Donald Martin Carter, Nelista Cuffy, Wil- liam Darity, Jr., Angela Y. Davis, Mitchell Duneier, Troy Duster, Steve Epstein, Richard Flacks, John Foran, Ruth Frankenberg, Maria Frank- lin, Charles Gallagher, Pam Goldman, Lauren E. Goodlad, Avery Gor- don, Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães, Phil Gorsky, Gail Hanlon, Michael Hanchard, Hella Heydorn, Arnell Hinkle, Judith Howard, Naheed Islam, Lucy Jarosz, Alan Jenkins, Lorraine Delia Kenny, Ellen Lewin, Donald Lowe, Kristin Luker, Jelani Mahiri, Irma McClaurin, Deirdre McDonald, Heather Merrill-Carter, Kenneth Mostern, Ruth Mostern, Pedro Antonio Noguera, Jodi O’Brien, Constance Penley, Sabrina Ramet, Darrel Robinson, Beth Schneider, Carolyn Martin Shaw, Nikhil Pal Singh, Stephen Small, Matthew Sparke, Becky Thompson, Mamie Lois Twine, Vron Ware, Alys Weinbaum, Brackette F. Williams, Ara Wilson, Howard Winant, John Wolfe, Joe Wood, Rai- han Zamil, and Abebe Zegeye. We are deeply appreciative of two extraordinary institutions—the University of Washington, Seattle, and the University of California, Santa Barbara—both of which provided numerous forms of institu- tional support that enabled this project to be brought to completion. ix