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Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities edited by Django Paris and Maisha T. Winn, SAGE, 2013, 304 pp., ISBN 978-1-4522- 2539-5 (paperback)
"To understand what it means to 'humanize' research, it is important to consider the ways in which people, and more specifically youth, are often 'dehumanized' or to borrow Blackburn's words '[made] less human by having their individuality, creativity, and humanity taken away, as when one is treated like a number or object.'" (p. 43)
Django Paris and Maisha T. Winn demystify the techniques and discourses surrounding conducting research with marginalized populations. In this collection of essays, they feature scholar- activist-educators whose goal is to provide insight and wisdom on conducting qualitative and ethnographic research with disenfranchised youth populations facing systems of inequity based upon race, gender, class, sexual orientation, citizenship, language, and other categories of difference. Paris and Winn situate themselves as activist- researchers who are
. . . driven to understand how our research can be further dedicated to understanding not only how inequality happens across...