Applying Our Imagination to Settle Unfinished Business
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Recent events on colleges campuses specifically and society generally suggest that a new generation of scholars will inherit the unfinished business of resolving our nation’s longstanding “race problem.” What can a journal do to improve their chances of producing scholarship that will lead to dismantling oppressive racial patterns and order? I argue in this manuscript that JCSCORE should provide more space to exchange and critique imaginations of new racial meanings and structures. Such forward-looking thinking that stretch beyond standardized approaches to scholarship can help coordinate and guide the application of empirical research. After all, “social change” is much more than an empirical project and ultimately requires a creative and organizing vision that inspires, invents, and sustains transformative actions.
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