Diversity is inevitable in researching minority, indigenous, and marginalized populations. In this collection, editors Django Paris and Maisha Winn have selected essays written by top scholars in education on humanizing approaches to qualitative and ethnographic inquiry with youth and their communities. Vignettes, portraits, narratives, personal and collaborative explorations, photographs, and additional data excerpts bring the findings to life for a better understanding of how to use research for positive social change.

Part I: Trust, Feeling, and Change: What We Learn, What We Share, What We Do
Chapter 1: Too Close to the Work/There is Nothing Right Now - Daysi Strong, Maria Duarte, Christina Gomez, Eric Meiners
Chapter 2: The Space Between: Listening and Story-ing as Foundations for Projects in Humanization (PiH) - Valerie Kinloch, Timothy San Pedro
Chapter 3: Conducting Humanizing Research with LGBTQQ Youth through Dialogic Communication, Consciousness Raising, and Action - Mollie Blackburn
Part II: Navigating Institutions and Communities as Participatory Activist Researchers: Tensions, Possibilities, and Transformations
Chapter 4: Humanizing Research in Dehumanizing Spaces: The Challenges of Conducting Participatory Action Research with Youth in Schools - Jason Irizarry, Tara Brown
Chapter 5: Activist Ethnography with Indigenous Youth--Lessons from Humanizing Research on Language and Education - Teresa L. McCarty, Leisy T. Wyman, Sheilah E. Nichols
Chapter 6: Critical Media Ethnography: Youth Media Research - Korina Jocson
Part III: The Complex Nature of Power, Relationships, and Responsibilities
Chapter 7: La Carta de Responsabilidad: The Problem of Exiting the Field - Ariana Mangual Figueroa
Chapter 8: Critical A Double-Dutch Methodology: A Kinetic Approach to Qualitative Educational Research - Keisha Green
Chapter 9: Revisiting the Keres Study: Learning from the Past to Engage Indigenous Youth, Elders and Teachers in Intergenerational Collaborative Research and Praxis - Eunice Romero-Little, Christine Sims, A-Dae Romero
Part IV: Revisiting Old Conversations toward New Approaches in Humanizing Research
Chapter 10: The Ethnographic Method in Educational Research: Why I Study Culture, and Why It Matters - David E. Kirkland
Chapter 11: Critical for Whom?: Theoretical and Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Approaches to Language Reseach - Mariana Souto-Manning
Chapter 12: R-words: Refusing Research - Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang
Epilogue: Reflecting Forward on Humanizing Approaches - Maisha Winn