Dr. Jennifer Esposito is a Department Chair and Professor of Research in the department of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Her research examines the ways race, class, gender, and/or sexuality impact a person’s experiences within education, including the educative sites of popular culture/media. She is the co-author of the book Intersectional Analysis of Popular Culture Texts: Clarity in the Matrix. Additionally, she is the author of over 40 articles and book chapters. She has published in journals like Qualitative Inquiry, International Journal of Qualitative Research in Education, International Review of Qualitative Research, and Urban Education. Venus Evans-Winters is a research and policy scholar, former professor of education, and Senior Researcher at the African American Policy Forum. She is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in private practice. Her research interests are educational policy analysis, racial trauma inside and outside of schools, and Black girls’ and women’s psychosocial development across the African diaspora. Dr. Evans-Winters is the author of Black Feminism in Qualitative Inquiry: A Mosaic for Writing Our Daughter’s Body and Teaching Black Girls: Resilience in Urban Schools. She is co-editor of the books Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Up, Back, & Out, Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader, and (Re)Teaching Trayvon: Education for Racial Justice and Human Freedom. She is also the author of numerous academic journal articles and book chapters. She is also the Executive Director of Planet Venus Institute.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsChapter 1 (R)evolution of Qualitative InquiryIntroduction to IntersectionalityEvolution of Qualitative ResearchCentering Intersectionality in Qualitative InquiryDecolonizing MethodologiesIntersectionality and Identity PoliticsIntersectionality in Qualitative ResearchIntersectional ResearchHow to Read This BookDiscussion QuestionsChapter 2 Theoretical Underpinnings of Qualitative ResearchOntologyEpistemologyTheoryMethodologyCritical Qualitative ResearchConclusionDiscussion QuestionsRecommended ReadingsChapter 3 The Ethics of IntersectionalityHuman ExperimentationNuremberg Code and Belmont ReportInstitutional Review BoardsConclusionDiscussion QuestionsChapter 4 MethodologyEthnographyA Note About Methodological ChoicesResearch DesignPutting It All TogetherSummaryDiscussion QuestionsChapter 5 Data Collection MethodsFraming the Dialogue on Data CollectionInterviewsFocus GroupsObservationsDocument AnalysisOther Data Collection MethodsSummaryDiscussion QuestionsChapter 6 Data Analysis, Part 1Data ManagementStarting Data AnalysisCodingMoving from Codes to ThemesComputer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS)ConclusionDiscussion QuestionsChapter 7 Data Analysis, Part 2Theorizing DataMemoingMethods of AnalysisSubjectivity StatementsGetting It RightConclusionDiscussion QuestionsChapter 8 Authorial Voice: Intersectional ConversationsWriting RitualsVoice in Qualitative InquiryThe Literature Review and VoiceThe Research ProposalIntroduction to the StudyThe Literature ReviewWriting Up Your FindingsSummaryDiscussion QuestionsChapter 9 The Reimagining and Possibilities of Qualitative InquiryReferences

Ultimately I decided not to adopt this text for my class. However, it is very well written and very well executed, and I will be adopting for a future course I′m designing. It is just not appropriate for an introductory qualitative research course -- I was being a bit too ambitious with my goals.

Dr. Jennifer Esposito is a Department Chair and Professor of Research in the department of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Her research examines the ways race, class, gender, and/or sexuality impact a person’s experiences within education, including the educative sites of popular culture/media. She is the co-author of the book Intersectional Analysis of Popular Culture Texts: Clarity in the Matrix. Additionally, she is the author of over 40 articles and book chapters. She has published in journals like Qualitative Inquiry, International Journal of Qualitative Research in Education, International Review of Qualitative Research, and Urban Education. Venus Evans-Winters is a research and policy scholar, former professor of education, and Senior Researcher at the African American Policy Forum. She is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in private practice. Her research interests are educational policy analysis, racial trauma inside and outside of schools, and Black girls’ and women’s psychosocial development across the African diaspora. Dr. Evans-Winters is the author of Black Feminism in Qualitative Inquiry: A Mosaic for Writing Our Daughter’s Body and Teaching Black Girls: Resilience in Urban Schools. She is co-editor of the books Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Up, Back, & Out, Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader, and (Re)Teaching Trayvon: Education for Racial Justice and Human Freedom. She is also the author of numerous academic journal articles and book chapters. She is also the Executive Director of Planet Venus Institute.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsChapter 1 (R)evolution of Qualitative InquiryIntroduction to IntersectionalityEvolution of Qualitative ResearchCentering Intersectionality in Qualitative InquiryDecolonizing MethodologiesIntersectionality and Identity PoliticsIntersectionality in Qualitative ResearchIntersectional ResearchHow to Read This BookDiscussion QuestionsChapter 2 Theoretical Underpinnings of Qualitative ResearchOntologyEpistemologyTheoryMethodologyCritical Qualitative ResearchConclusionDiscussion QuestionsRecommended ReadingsChapter 3 The Ethics of IntersectionalityHuman ExperimentationNuremberg Code and Belmont ReportInstitutional Review BoardsConclusionDiscussion QuestionsChapter 4 MethodologyEthnographyA Note About Methodological ChoicesResearch DesignPutting It All TogetherSummaryDiscussion QuestionsChapter 5 Data Collection MethodsFraming the Dialogue on Data CollectionInterviewsFocus GroupsObservationsDocument AnalysisOther Data Collection MethodsSummaryDiscussion QuestionsChapter 6 Data Analysis, Part 1Data ManagementStarting Data AnalysisCodingMoving from Codes to ThemesComputer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS)ConclusionDiscussion QuestionsChapter 7 Data Analysis, Part 2Theorizing DataMemoingMethods of AnalysisSubjectivity StatementsGetting It RightConclusionDiscussion QuestionsChapter 8 Authorial Voice: Intersectional ConversationsWriting RitualsVoice in Qualitative InquiryThe Literature Review and VoiceThe Research ProposalIntroduction to the StudyThe Literature ReviewWriting Up Your FindingsSummaryDiscussion QuestionsChapter 9 The Reimagining and Possibilities of Qualitative InquiryReferences

Ultimately I decided not to adopt this text for my class. However, it is very well written and very well executed, and I will be adopting for a future course I′m designing. It is just not appropriate for an introductory qualitative research course -- I was being a bit too ambitious with my goals.

Dr. Jennifer Esposito is a Department Chair and Professor of Research in the department of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Her research examines the ways race, class, gender, and/or sexuality impact a person’s experiences within education, including the educative sites of popular culture/media. She is the co-author of the book Intersectional Analysis of Popular Culture Texts: Clarity in the Matrix. Additionally, she is the author of over 40 articles and book chapters. She has published in journals like Qualitative Inquiry, International Journal of Qualitative Research in Education, International Review of Qualitative Research, and Urban Education. Venus Evans-Winters is a research and policy scholar, former professor of education, and Senior Researcher at the African American Policy Forum. She is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in private practice. Her research interests are educational policy analysis, racial trauma inside and outside of schools, and Black girls’ and women’s psychosocial development across the African diaspora. Dr. Evans-Winters is the author of Black Feminism in Qualitative Inquiry: A Mosaic for Writing Our Daughter’s Body and Teaching Black Girls: Resilience in Urban Schools. She is co-editor of the books Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Up, Back, & Out, Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader, and (Re)Teaching Trayvon: Education for Racial Justice and Human Freedom. She is also the author of numerous academic journal articles and book chapters. She is also the Executive Director of Planet Venus Institute.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsChapter 1 (R)evolution of Qualitative InquiryIntroduction to IntersectionalityEvolution of Qualitative ResearchCentering Intersectionality in Qualitative InquiryDecolonizing MethodologiesIntersectionality and Identity PoliticsIntersectionality in Qualitative ResearchIntersectional ResearchHow to Read This BookDiscussion QuestionsChapter 2 Theoretical Underpinnings of Qualitative ResearchOntologyEpistemologyTheoryMethodologyCritical Qualitative ResearchConclusionDiscussion QuestionsRecommended ReadingsChapter 3 The Ethics of IntersectionalityHuman ExperimentationNuremberg Code and Belmont ReportInstitutional Review BoardsConclusionDiscussion QuestionsChapter 4 MethodologyEthnographyA Note About Methodological ChoicesResearch DesignPutting It All TogetherSummaryDiscussion QuestionsChapter 5 Data Collection MethodsFraming the Dialogue on Data CollectionInterviewsFocus GroupsObservationsDocument AnalysisOther Data Collection MethodsSummaryDiscussion QuestionsChapter 6 Data Analysis, Part 1Data ManagementStarting Data AnalysisCodingMoving from Codes to ThemesComputer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS)ConclusionDiscussion QuestionsChapter 7 Data Analysis, Part 2Theorizing DataMemoingMethods of AnalysisSubjectivity StatementsGetting It RightConclusionDiscussion QuestionsChapter 8 Authorial Voice: Intersectional ConversationsWriting RitualsVoice in Qualitative InquiryThe Literature Review and VoiceThe Research ProposalIntroduction to the StudyThe Literature ReviewWriting Up Your FindingsSummaryDiscussion QuestionsChapter 9 The Reimagining and Possibilities of Qualitative InquiryReferences

Ultimately I decided not to adopt this text for my class. However, it is very well written and very well executed, and I will be adopting for a future course I′m designing. It is just not appropriate for an introductory qualitative research course -- I was being a bit too ambitious with my goals.