Multicultural Research: Race, Class, Gender And Sexual Orientation

Multicultural Research Multicultural Research: A Reflective Engagement with Race, Class, Gender and Sexual Orientation Edited by Carl A.Grant UK Falmer Press, 1 Gunpowder Square, London, EC4A 3DE USA Falmer Press, Taylor & Francis Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, 8th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19106 © C.A.Grant, 1999 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the publisher. First published in 1999 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. ªTo purchase your own copy of this or any of T aylor & Francis or Routledge's collecti on of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.º A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-203-98084-0 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0 7507 0881 6 cased ISBN 0 7507 0880 8 paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data are available on request Jacket design by Caroline Archer Cover printed in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd. Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders for their permission to reprint material in this book. The publishers would be grateful to hear from any copyright holder who is not here acknowledged and will undertake to rectify any errors or omissions in future editions of this book. Contents Acknowledgments vi 1 Introduction: The Idea, the Invitation, and Chapter Themes Carl A.Grant 1 2 Reconstituting an Ethnography: Social Exclusion, Post-Modern Social Theory, and the Study of Teacher Education Thomas S.Popkewitz 11 3 Multiculture in the Making Elizabeth Ellsworth 30 4 Born to Roll: Graduate School from the Margins Jennifer E.Obidah 46 5 Between Neo and Post: Critique and Transformation in Critical Educational Studies Michael W.Apple 67 6 Writing Gender into Reading Research Donna E.Alvermann 84 7 Narrating My Life Mary Louise Gomez 95 8 Roots and Wings: Conceptual Underpinnings for Research and Contributions Related to Diversity Eugene E.García 111 9 In Search of a Method for Liberating Education and Research: The Half (That) Has not Been Told Joyce E.King 124 10 Finding My Life's Work Mildred J.Hudson 148 11 The Professional is the Personal: Personal Identity and Research Agendas Michael C.Thornton 161 v 12 `Funny, You Don't Look Puerto Rican', and Other Musings on Developing a Philosophical Orientation to Multicultural Education Research Sonia Nieto 178 13 Personal and Intellectual Motivation for Working from the Margin Carl A.Grant 192 14 The Educational Researcher as Critical Social Agent: Some Personal Reflections on Marxist Criticism in Post-modern Deeducational Climates Peter McLaren 205 15 Writing from the Heart Christine Sleeter 245 16 Research As Praxis: Unlearning Oppression and Research Journeys Beth Blue Swadener 260 17 Stumbling Toward Knowledge: Enacting and Embodying Qualitative Research Becky Ropers-Huilman and Beth Graue 280 18