Writing Race and the “Objective” Observer Week Two Reading Race in Cultural Studies Theories and Methods Monday, April 5 Professors LeiLani Nishime and Ralina L. Joseph Writing Race and the “Objective” Observer

Questions of the quarter: how do we “read” race? How do we “write” race? How is research raced? Racialized research: human subject research  textual analyses?

Troy Duster, Professor of Sociology at NYU Stratification and political power intersecting with demography (xi) Who has race? (xi) Response to “autobiographical” work? Bias (xii) Access and content Whose questions get asked? Salience of race/race has a synergistic quality (xiii) “collective redress of the imbalance of research on race” (xiv)

France Winddance Twine What does the researcher expect in advance vs. what does she actually find? Role of the researcher’s body What constitutes “insiderness”? Racial matching Racial standpoint Eroticism and racism Racial Discourses Aesthetics and Ethics “As a”; I statements Applications to your own work