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“Filled with urgency and intelligence, these essays are the material evidence of critical scholarship linked to social movements, within and across local spaces, fortified with social theory and rich evidence. While most days I find little reason for hope in the academy, these scholars restore a critical sense of what is possible, what is necessary, and what is next.”—from the epilogue by Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Social/Personality Psychology, Urban Education, and Women’s Studies, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

“Anyon and her colleagues explicitly and engagingly confront the separation between theorizing and data collection, demonstrating the strength of research tied to theory and the strength of theory that has empirical support. This instructive book shows that even though theoretical labor is challenging, it can also be exhilarating for the researcher, demanding personal …