1. 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

2. 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?

3. 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)

4. 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