On Women and White People.

Not to state the obvious, but this book varies greatly from our others. I found myself wandering away from the text a bit, and i was a bit less captivated and felt the text was repetitive at times. It did have some useful guidelines, but it took a while for em to see them through what I widely viewed as a literature review.

The first chapter focuses on some of the people that laid the groundwork for critically conscious research. Much of it reiterated the things we have heard before, which is, capitalism and criticisms of such tend to overpower the issues concerning racism and sexism. But of course, we can't blame these scholars for not paying attention to women and ethnicities besides their own because it was just a product of the time...sure. Though I am not happy with this perception, it does prove that research is ever-evolving through history and that much of it is historically constructed. From this notion, we can expand our view on critically conscious research.

The second chapter ventures across the world to look at other scholars that opened the field of critically conscious research a bit more. We're reminded that the assertions we make about the world and things around us are informed by our cultures; and those meanings we make because of our culture are important and valuable to critically conscious research. The chapter ends emphasizing that we cannot ignore the oppressions of ethnicities (other than white) and the suppression of women.

The last chapter hones in on research that is attempting to get away from research from the past that focused on white males. All of the the different approaches mentioned in the chapter seem to agree on one thing, to be aware of the differences and power struggles in order to reach justice. It's not that we can take away the "white privilege" that has been engrained in us, but we can become critically aware of it in order to move away from it and its dominance. One of the many ways we can become active learners is through narrative and gaining perspective from narrative of other groups; which really ties in with Dr. Jackson's class this semester. To end, we need to draw from multiple sources, whether it be from women, other cultures and races, women of other ethnicites, etc. to challenge the traditional research that has been established.