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Negotiating from the Inside

Constructing Racial and Ethnic Identity in Qualitative Research

LELIA LOMBA De ANDRADE

Bowdoin College

This article provides a critical analysis of the role of the "insider" researcher in qualitative fieldwork in race and ethnicity. The analysis is based on research conducted on the construction of racial and ethnic identity in the Cape Verdean American community of southeastern New England. Reflections are presented on the various ways that the researcher's status as an "insider" was evaluated and negotiated during fieldwork. It is suggested that these negotiations reveal the manner in which group members define the boundaries of the group, the attributes they associate with it, and the meaning of the group itself. This interpretation of insider status, as involving complex and ongoing definitions and negotiations of group membership, highlights the way that researchers and participants are simultaneously engaged in the construction of race and ethnicity.

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 29, No. 3, 268-290 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/089124100129023918
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