Elizabeth R Drame/Decoteau J Irby: Black Participatory Research (E-Book)

<p>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 PhiladelphiaNew 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.</p>

Black Participatory Research offers an assessment of how shared racial self-identity, self-valuation, and experiences of oppression and difference shape the co-production of knowledge in increasingly popular participatory social science research methods.

Elizabeth R. Drame is Associate Professor in the Department of Exceptional Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.

Decoteau J. Irby is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at ChicagoCollege of Education, USA