@article{ref1,
title="Rethinking epistemology, methodology, and racism: or, is White sociology really dead?",
journal="Race and society",
year="2002",
author="Hunter, Michael",
volume="5",
number="2",
pages="119-138",
abstract="This paper examines the influence of racial epistemologies on social science research methods and knowledge production. Neo-liberal understandings of positivism and the institutional power that perpetuates them are criticized in favor of epistemological diversity in the academy. Drawing on the insider/outsider debate in sociology, particularly the dialogue with the &quot;new Black sociology&quot; movement of the 1970s, and feminist methodology and epistemology studies, the article outlines five typical racial epistemologies: (1) the Black/White racial epistemology, (2) the assimilationist epistemology, (3) the colonial domination epistemology, (4) the critical intersectional epistemology, and (5) the neo-liberal positivist epistemology. The author assesses the impact of each of the epistemologies on sociological research and discusses how these racial &quot;ways of knowing&quot; affect the creation of research questions, choice of analytic categories, selection of sociological theories, analysis of data, and ultimately, the knowledge and power relations we re/produce.<p />",
language="",
issn="1090-9524",
doi="10.1016/j.racsoc.2004.01.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.racsoc.2004.01.002"
}