Black Emancipatory Action Research: Integrating a theory of structural racialisation into ethnographic and participatory action research methods

Ethnography and Education

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 113-131

  Akom, Antwi A A ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicago school; Critical ethnography; Emancipatory action research; Indigenous research methods; Participatory action research; Pigmentocracy; Racism; Researching race; Structural racism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956351156     PISSN: 17457823     EISSN: 17457831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17457823.2011.553083     Document Type: Article

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