Race, Ethnography and Education

Rodney K. Hopson is Professor at the Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership in the School of Education, and teaching faculty member in the Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research, in the School of Liberal Arts, at Duquesne University, USA. Hopson’s scholarly work raises questions that analyze and address the differential impact of education and schooling on marginalized and underrepresented groups. Adrienne D. Dixson is an Associate Professor of Critical Race Theory and Education in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Dixson’s scholarship examines the intersectionality of race, class and gender in urban educational contexts, with a particular interest in how these issues impact educational equity for students and people of color in the urban south.

Introduction 1. Intersections, theories, and meanings of race, racism, and educational ethnography Rodney K. Hopson and Adrienne D. Dixson Literature reviews of race ethnography 2. Racism, ‘race’ and ethnographic research in multicultural Italy Francesca Gobbo 3. Ethnographic investigations of issues of race in Scandinavian education research Dennis Beach and Johannes Lunneblad 4. Racialised subjectivities: a critical examination of ethnography on Black males in the USA, 1960s to early 2000s Anthony L. Brown Substantive research projects 5. ‘Love your China’ and evangelise: religion, nationalism, racism and immigrant settlement in Canada Huamei Han 6. Outsiders or insiders? Identity, educational success and Muslim young men in England Ghazala Bhatti New directions in methodology 7. Elevating the role of race in ethnographic research: navigating race relations in the field Keffrelyn D. Brown 8. Black emancipatory action research: integrating a theory of structural racialisation into ethnographic and participatory action research methods Antwi A.A. Akom