Working Method: Research and Social Justice

Introduction: Compositional Studies in Four Parts: Critical theorizing and analysis on social (in)justice, Lois Weis and Michelle Fine Part 1: Full Composition and Initial Fracturing 1. Dear Zora: A Letter to Zora Neale Hurston fifty years after Brown Michelle Fine, Janice Bloom, April Burns, Lori Chajet, Monique Guishard, Tiffany Perkins-Munn and Maria Elena Torre Part 2: Deep Work Within a Fracture 2. Race, Gender and Critique: African American Women, White Women, and Domestic Violence in the 1980s and 1990s Lois Weis 3. Civics Lessons: The Color and class of betrayal Michelle Fine, April Burns, Yassar Payne and Maria Elena Torre Part 3: Designs for Historic Analysis 4. Gender, Masculinity and the New Economy Lois Weis Part 4: Designs to Document Sites of Possibility 5. Participatory Action Research: From within and beyond prison bars Michelle Fine, Maria Elena Torre, Kathy Boudin, Iris Bowen, Judith Clark, Donna Hylton, Migdalia Martinez, Melissa Rivera, Rosemarie A. Roberts, Pamela Smart and Debora Upegui 6. Extraordinary Conversations in Public Schools Lois Weis and Michelle Fine