"This Ain't the Projects": A Researcher's Reflections on the Local Appropriateness of Our Research Tools

In this article I examine the ways in which Black and Latina/o urban high school youth pressed me to reflexively examine my positionality and that of my research tools during a year-long ethnographic study documenting their communicative repertoires. I reflect on youth comments on my researcher tool...

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Published in:Anthropology & education quarterly 2016-03, Vol.47 (1), p.59-77
Main Author: Martinez, Danny C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African American Students
black and Latina/o youth
Deixis
Ethnography
High School Students
Hispanic American Students
methods
Minority & ethnic groups
Minority Group Students
Narratives
Reflective Teaching
Reflexivity
Research Methodology
Research methods
Research Tools
Secondary school students
Student Attitudes
surveillance
United States
Urban Youth
Youth
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Summary:In this article I examine the ways in which Black and Latina/o urban high school youth pressed me to reflexively examine my positionality and that of my research tools during a year-long ethnographic study documenting their communicative repertoires. I reflect on youth comments on my researcher tools, as well as myself, in order to wrestle with the indexical connections fragile and over-surveilled participants might have toward our well-intentioned research methods.
ISSN:0161-7761
1548-1492
DOI:10.1111/aeq.12135