General Introduction -- Conceptualizing New Racism in Relation to Old-Fashioned Racism: Concepts and Research Approaches -- Experimental Research: Studying Variables to Examine Causal Effects in Terms of Mitigating Against the Potential of Racism -- Survey Research: Examining Expressed Feelings and Views on Racial(ized) Issues as Variables Along with Other Variables -- Intensive Interviewing as Research: Generating In-Depth Talk to Explore Experiences/Cognitions of Racism -- Ethnographic Research: Exploring the Quality of Social Life in Social Settings -- Action Research: Exploring in Action the Meaning of Research as Change in Complex Living Systems -- Research Conducted in Terms of Retroductive Processes: Rethinking the Theorization of Racism -- General Conclusion: Reviewing Research Approaches, Conceptualizing Mixed-Research Designs, and Writing into One Another’s Stories.

This book combines the sociological exploration of human being in society with an examination of human knowing processes and their justification in the social fabric. It connects this to discussions around race/ethnicity, gender, and class issues. The book brings together these areas of inquiry and explores options for enhancing social research on new racism. Besides offering an in-depth comparison of different definitions of new racism, the book examines a range of research styles that have been used to approach the field, and offers suggestions as to how these can be extended. With careful reference to examples, the book spells out how researchers can take into consideration the potential social impacts of their inquiry approaches. This book provides readers with an overview of debates on new racism, and helps them reconsider methodological and epistemological debates in the social sciences and their implications for social and political practice.