LEARNING TO THEORIZE MEANINGFULLY ABOUT RACE, RACIALIZATION, AND RACISM IS HUMBLING

In this chapter, the book editors engage readers by sharing the goals and innovative features of the volume. As editors of the volume, Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang, and Jade Nixon emphasize stories of learning and unlearning to theorize Blackness, Indigeneity, and racialization in Social Science research with youth as a significant contribution of this book. More specifically, editors understand this volume to be a gathering place of stories that share how contributing authors made their way to meaningful and rigorous theories of race, racialization, and racism often beyond their disciplines. Learning and knowing strong theories of race, racialization, and racism, editors suggest, matter for research seeking to reduce inequality in youth outcomes, and for the work that researchers do with Black, Indigenous, and young people of color. In addition to sharing the major contributions, editors narrate how the book came to be, outline how the book is organized, and encourage readers to write as a way of knowing. The chapter ends with a reminder to readers that our stories can fill the gaps as we continue to grow meaningful theories of race, racialization, and racism within and beyond our disciplines.