The Sociohistorically Situated and Structurally Central Nature of Race: Toward an Analytic of Research regarding Race and Racism

Authors

Rolf Straubhaar, Texas State University - San MarcosFollow

Keywords

Theoretical analytic, structural racism, sociohistorical contextuality, intersectionality

Document Type

Article in Response to Controversy

Theme

Teaching for Social Justice in a Highly Politicized Historical Moment

Abstract

In a response to Wacquant’s (1997) call for “an analytic of racial domination” (p. 230) to theorize about race and racism, this conceptual article puts forward one such analytic. This analytic is based principally on the continued centrality of race in society, the recognition that racism is always shaped by particular sociohistorical factors, and the importance of documenting racism’s contextual intersectionality with class, gender and other elements of social structure through academic inquiry focused on both discourse and measurable action as data for racial analysis.

Recommended Citation

Straubhaar, Rolf (2022) "The Sociohistorically Situated and Structurally Central Nature of Race: Toward an Analytic of Research regarding Race and Racism," Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 15: No. 1, Article 1.
Available at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol15/iss1/1

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Language

English

Format

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Type

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