Critical scholarship can fuse passionate engagement with rigorous analytical method

Evidence

A book of this sort, it may already be evident, conjures if it doesn’t emphatically call for a different kind of writing. I have composed a work in which I have tried to retain passion rather than purge it for the preference of a neutral disposition, whatever that might mean, preferring to wed passion to a critical analyticity, commitment(s), and to theoretical reflectivity. I have tried to write with writing in mind. Which is to say with speaking to colleagues and those unknown, shouting at claims from which leave is taken, which leave one not so much cold as furious. How to write with passion and yet remain coolly critical, cutting, incisive? — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 29

Categorization

• QUESTION: Goldberg poses the question of passion versus critical distance in scholarship; worth chasing how this shapes his actual prose throughout the book.
• XREF: connects to: Combining analytical and experiential knowledge yields richer knowing.