In this intensely powerful and personal new text, Michelle Fine widens the methodological
imagination for students, educators, scholars, and researchers interested in crafting …

Drawing on data from a historical-ethnographic study of the cultural politics of school
desegregation in Seattle, USA, the author explores suffering as a recurring theme in the …

This article begins by examining current crises facing historically marginalized youth, which
necessitate more critical approaches to youth development and empirical investigations into …

Cultivated within the long history of psychological research dedicated to social action, this
chapter traces one stream of action research, critical participatory action research (critical …

This paper forecasts a “fictional” methods textbook for researchers interested in studying
social oppression and resistance. The volume moves between historic and contemporary …

Drawing on the intersections of a justice oriented participatory action research and critical
race theory, this essay explores the possibilities for research embedded in the theoretical …

Noted scholar Lois Weis first visited the town of" Freeway" in her 1990 book, Working Class
Without Work. In that book we met the students and teachers of Freeway's high school to …

off white: Readings on Power, Privilege and Resistance, Second Edition Page 1 Michelle Fine,
Lois Weis, Linda Powell Pruitt, April Burns Off White Readings on Power, Privilege, and …

Background/Context Schools are cultural contexts that have the power and potential to
promote students' cultural assets or “other” youth in a way that keeps them from creating …

In much of the youth empowerment literature, researchers focus on the relationship between
youth and adults involved in empowerment programs while neglecting the broader social …