Racisms in Qualitative Inquiry: Recognitions and Challenges

The purposes of this article are to introduce a special issue of Qualitative Inquiry focusing on "Racisms in Qualitative Inquiry" and to make obvious the institutionalized perspectives and practices of racism that are embedded in the conceptualizations and doings of qualitative research. The articles address unexamined purposes, direct practices, and methodologies of research like coding and biases in representation, along with rethinking and reconceptualizing research though knowledges like Black Studies (and other Ethnic Studies generally) and the use of methodologies that have been ignored and excluded like platicas. The final articles discuss those hidden relational and policy complexities in higher education as the predominant location for the practice and rewarding of qualitative inquiry.