Content Hub
This is a space for members of our community to learn what we are up to, access additional resources and gain updates about projects. We will also launch our first quarterly “Methods Brief” in the fall of 2024. This will be a space to share updates about Institute-led projects, feature a member of our research community, announce upcoming events, and invite you to publish brief reflections, lessons learned, or write about methods you are using.
The Black Adoption Project
The Black Adoption Project is a research and archival initiative to collect our wisdom, aesthetic, joy, pain, and stories of kinship and community across all our diverse experiences of adoption and how it touches and shapes us throughout the life course. We are a collective of adults whose stories of family include adoption and black heritage.
Knowledge for Us By Us
Starting in September 2024 we will be launching our first methods brief. This is a space to share project updates, upcoming events through the institute and elsewhere, and to invite interpretive and qualitative researchers to write short pieces for publication. These will be open-access publications.
On Methodological Bigotry
BY Gina Miranda Samuels
This Methods Brief will be the first in a series of papers on methods, methodology, and navigating knowledge work as an insider and person of color. This paper will examine the ways in which positivism and other culturally anchored values of reality, objectivity and truth operate as forms of oppression and outright bigotry in knowledge work. This article identifies ways in which we all internalize these systems of meaning. Readers are invited to consider ways of engaging knowledge democracy to practice forms of epistemically just research.